nagarahole tiger reserve

Indigenous communities in Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu are protesting wildlife tourism and tiger reserve expansion. They accuse authorities and conservation groups of commercializing ancestral lands, evicting families, and ignoring their rights. A joint declaration demands an immediate halt to relocations and recognition of their land rights, calling forced conservation 'colonization'.

Rest houses, other facilities also remained unused

In a groundbreaking shift for wildlife tourism, Karnataka is replacing open jeep safaris in its tiger reserves and wildlife sanctuaries with secure buses featuring safety barriers. This decision comes in light of a recent safety incident, demonstrating the state government's commitment to safeguarding both tourists and wildlife.

Spread over a staggering 848sq km in Mysuru and Kodagu districts and home to a rich variety of wildlife, the serenity of nagarahole tiger reserve is being threatened by a series of projects, with the latest being a tiger safari aimed at promoting tourism.

Authorities at nagarahole tiger reserve are opening two additional safari centres to even out the rush. This is even as the demand to open a safari centre at Nugu in Bandipur Tiger Reserve is pending.

Big cats, especially leopards, making a prey of livestock in villages bordering the nagarahole tiger reserve are common.

An injured 11-year-old tiger from nagarahole tiger reserve was captured and treated after being spotted on the Kutta-Ponnampet main road. Believed to be hurt in a territorial fight, it was moved to Bannerghatta Biological Park for recovery. Forest officials confirm that the tiger is recuperating well.

As the clouds gather over the horizon in the far reaches of the Arabian Sea, awaiting landfall on the Indian west coast, officials of the forest department at the nagarahole tiger reserve are busy preparing the ground – quite literally – to revive as many as 10 lakes that have dried up in the forest ahead of the monsoon.

The increase in the number of tigers under the camera trap method of counting big cats has made authorities of nagarahole tiger reserve spread over Mysuru and Kodagu districts proud as they have outclassed their counterpart Bandipur Tiger Reserve.

The big cats in nagarahole tiger reserve could have some space for themselves as foresters are looking at shifting tourist facilities to the periphery of the national park.

The nagarahole tiger reserve is set to carry out an 8-day tiger census exercise starting on Friday, February 6th. Beat officers and other staff will carry out a sign survey of carnivores and megaherbivores, logging all direct and indirect evidence in the mstripes app. The camera trapping exercise was completed in 25 days time on December 10th. The exercise will start in November and will include density and vegetation plot surveys in each line transect of the respective beats within the next 36 days, based on the number of line transects in each beat. Direct sighting of prey species on the transect line will be logged using a range finder and compass, this being used to determine the distance between the prey species and the transect line. Earlier on Thursday, a refresher training about the phase 1 exercise for this census was conducted at the Veeranhosahalli range. All range coordinators of all ranges of nagarahole tiger reserve range forest officers of all ranges respective subdivision assistant conservator of forest and deputy conservator of forest of the D.C.F. along with other staff of nagarahole tiger reserve participated. Green activists are looking forward to the tiger census report 2022 before the end of

Animal lovers have good news from Bandipur and nagarahole tiger reserves. Both forest regions have witnessed fewer fire mishaps during the current summer, which is considered ‘fire season’ by forest authorities. With rain lashing the forest region in the last week, officers breathed a sigh of relief.

A male tiger has been found dead near the coffee estate bordering nagarahole tiger reserve in Kodagu.

Bird Survey 2023 in nagarahole tiger reserve will be held between January 9 and 12. The survey was done last in 2021, said Harshakumar Chikkanaragund, director, nagarahole tiger reserve. Around 450 birding enthusiasts have applied for the survey.

In less than two months, Karnataka is inching fast towards 2016’s figure of 17

The nagarahole tiger reserve authorities are planning to seriously pursue the case booked under the provisions of Wild Life Protection Act against Kannada actor Dhanveer Gowda.