Mysore/Mysuru: Dr. P. Ramesh Kumar, an Indian Forest Service (IFS) Officer and former Director of Bandipur Tiger Reserve, currently awaiting posting, has been assigned to the position of Conservator of Forests (Project Tiger), Mysuru, filling a previously vacant post. This decision comes following the declaration that the role of Conservator of Forests (Project Tiger), Mysuru,…
UNDP appreciates Bandipur’s unique ‘Yuva Mithra’ initiative
August 25, 2023Project teaches human-animal coexistence to students from various Government Schools By M.T. Yogesh Kumar Mysore/Mysuru: ‘Yuva Mithra,’ which was launched to commemorate the Golden Jubilee celebrations of Project Tiger in Bandipur, has garnered recognition from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The initiative, inaugurated in January by the Union Minister for Forests Bhupendra Yadav in…
Driving PM on a safari for two hours was memorable
April 10, 2023Safari vehicle driver D.P. Madhusudhan opens up on his nerve-racking moments Mysore/Mysuru: Though the Project Tiger was launched in India in 1973 and on Nov. 16, 1973 in Bandipur, it was Narendra Modi, the first Prime Minister to visit the Bandipur Tiger Reserve. Taking the VVIP and one of the world’s most powerful politicians in…
Commemorating 50 years of Project Tiger: PM inaugurates Intl. Meet
April 9, 2023Mysuru, Apr. 9 (MTY&BS)-Prime Minister Narendra Modi today released the ‘Tiger Estimation Summary Report’ and declared the number of big cats in India as on 2022 as ‘3,167’. The PM, who inaugurated the International Conference on Tiger Conservation and also the First Indian Conservation Conference organised as part of 50 years of Project Tiger, at…
Project Tiger completes 50 years in Bandipur
November 17, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: Karnataka’s first Project Tiger was implemented in Bandipur Tiger Reserve in 1973 and 50 years (Golden Jubilee) have been successfully completed. Declared in 1973, the Project Tiger is the first of its kind of project in India which initiated a concerted Tiger Protection Campaign as the tiger population was on the decline due to…
Project Tiger completes 47 years: A thumps up for Big Cat conservation
November 20, 2020Gundlupet: It is definitely an occasion to celebrate. The ambitious ‘Project Tiger’ launched in 1973 to protect the dwindling tiger population in Karnataka forests, has completed 47 years. On November 17, 1973, the then Chief Minister D. Devaraja Urs declared Bandipur Park as ‘Tiger Reserve’ heralding a new era of tiger protection in the country….
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