Gundlupet: Tourists, who were returning from Gopalaswamy Hill, were a happy lot as a tiger came in front of the KSRTC bus and sat on the roadside giving pose to them yesterday evening. As entry of private vehicles is banned to hilltop, tourists and others visiting the Temple atop the Hill have to take KSRTC…
Was tranquillised with the help of tamed elephants H.D. Kote: An aged tiger, which had killed domestic animals in and around Moorband, Kalsur, Hegganur and N. Begur in Sargur taluk, has been finally captured after tranquillising it with the help of tamed elephants near an agricultural field at Devalapura hundi village yesterday. According to the…
Forest Department sniffer dog ‘Rana’ traces scent of poachers Hanagodu: The tiger that was found dead in the Kallahalla Range of Nagarahole Tiger Reserve on Tuesday was shot dead by poachers. The post-mortem that was conducted yesterday revealed gunshot wounds. Forest officials said that this was the first such poaching incident involving a tiger in…
Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru Forest Mobile Squad has arrested two persons and seized a tiger pelt from them yesterday. Deputy Conservator of Forests A.T. Poovaiah, who led the team, said that they arrested Akash Rao and Vishnu, who are in their twenties, and seized the tiger pelt. Both are from Santhemala near Krishna Raja Sagar in…
Nagarahole National Park has 11.82 tigers per 100 square kilometres and Bandipur has 7.7 Mysore/Mysuru: In what is said to be the ‘world’s largest effort invested in any wildlife survey till date’, Corbett Tiger Reserve of Uttarakhand has recorded the highest tiger density amongst 50 tiger reserves in India — it has 14 tigers per…
Iyengar had adopted the feline, captured in Brahmagiri Forests, for lifetime at Mysuru Zoo Mysore/Mysuru: A tiger which was adopted by Yoga Guru Belur Krishnamachar Sundararaja (BKS) Iyengar for lifetime died at the Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens (Mysuru Zoo) last evening. The tiger named ‘Brahma’ was housed in the Zoo for the past 12 years….
Mysore/Mysuru: A video clip of a male tiger walking majestically inside Bandipur Tiger Reserve has gone viral on the social media. But the fact is that video is not from Bandipur but from Chorbahuli Zone which is in the Maharashtra part of Pench National Park. The video has received many “wows” on social media with…
Mysore/Mysuru: A carcass of a tiger aged between 7 and 8 years has been found at N. Begur Range in Bandipur Tiger Reserve. It is suspected that the tiger may have died about three days ago and the carcass was found in a bush at Vadali Beat in N. Begur Range. Though it is suspected…
New Delhi: The tiger census conducted in 2018 has entered the Guinness Book of World Records for being the world’s largest camera trap wildlife survey in which camera traps were placed at 26,838 locations across 141 different sites. The Union Environment Ministry statement yesterday called India’s tiger conservation efforts a “gold standard” for the world….
Big cat injured due to territorial fight; to be shifted to Bengaluru Bannerghatta Biological Park Mysore/Mysuru: The tiger that had mauled a shepherd to death near Hunsur on Monday was trapped inside a cage late last night. A few remains of 65-year-old Jagadeesh was found near D. Haadi of Neralakuppe by the Forest Department officials…
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