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Monday, August 17, 2009

Minister makes a mockery of rules

In a bizarre incident Agriculture minister of Maharashtra entered a cage for tigers to pose with the cubs on Saturday. Though our country is known for lawmakers believing they are above it but such incidents in full media glare put a question mark on the sincerity of our political class to lead by example.

Minister enters tiger cage, activists cry foul

Man Animal conflict at Tadoba increasing again

After the lull of the last few months, a report by PTI cites a sheperd being killed inside the park. It is relevant to note Tadoba's prominence in the last few years grew owing to increased tiger attacks on human beings. These attacks suddenly came to a stop in January this year making wildlife activists to conclude large scale poaching for the reason behind sudden stopping of conflicts. This new how ever brings to fore the serious problem again and the park authorities would do well to chalk out a detailed plan to prevent recurrance less tigers in this area too are lost soon.

Kerala second state to ink new pact with Centre on Tiger conservation

After Rajasthan, kerala has become the 2nd state to have inked the tripartite pact (http://planettiger.blogspot.com/2009/07/new-ntca-guidelines-to-hold-field.html) making all the state, centre and park management party to a legally binding contract with regards to conservation of flaura and fauna inside the sanctuary. The centre would be well advised to push all other states especailly MP to sign the pact in a time bound manner so that it comes into force immediately.

Kerala inks pact with Centre for tiger conservation