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The Royal Bengal Tiger Film Festival |
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| The film festival dedicated to the tiger was a huge success. Thanks to the numerous media reports about the festival we had interested people coming to the festival from all over Mumbai. There were scheduled 6 shows in the two days. |
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The Climate Change Photography Contest 2008 |
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| Hewlett-Packard India and Sanctuary have joined hands to search for images that have the power to shake people out of their stupor, to recognise the reality and inevitability of climate change. We are looking for creative, attention-grabbing or poignant images that graphically express the reality and impact of climate change on people and the environment. (more) |
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Sanctuary-NDTV 'Save the Tiger' Campaign |
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Only 1,411 tigers remain in the wild!
Please click here to sign the online petition to save the tiger. |
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| This campaign is supported by NDTV. |
| In Focus |
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Last and Final Call
Yes! We can still save the tiger, but will we? Bittu Sahgal and Jennifer Scarlott flag an issue that should be at the top of the agenda of the Indian Prime Minister and every other head of state, indeed the Security Council of the United Nations itself – the survival of the natural world, and, therefore, of Homo sapiens [more]
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| Saving the Indian Tiger- Science to the fore |
There is so much bad news about tigers that conservationists appear to be giving up hope. Rapid economic growth, land-hunger of the poor and thoughtless development projects are pushing back tiger habitats. Even as the pressure of poaching mounts on prey species and tigers, the guardians of India’s forests are drifting off-course from their mission of protection, seduced by lucrative distractions like ‘ecodevelopment’, ‘ecotourism’ and ‘habitat management’. The tiger’s cause seems hopeless. Is it really? Let us remember: Jim Corbett had set the date for extinction of India’s wild tigers 50 years ago, and more recently, several leading conservationists had reset that clock for the year 2000. Despite both deadlines having passed, the tiger hangs in there grimly. [more]
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| India's critical Tiger habitats |
| It is not the lack of Protected Areas that threaten tigers and other wildlife in India. It is the constant threat from a political system that has proven to be willing and able to denotify existing PAs for dams, mines, roads and other ‘developmental’ projects, sever habitat connectivity and dismantle existing wildlife and forest laws. [more] |
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| Ask Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to act now on climate change |
| The Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change is mandated to develop a National Climate Action Plan (NCAP) to understand the issue, and map out what India needs to do. Whether this Council will be able to deal with this vital task, however, is not clear at the time of writing because little is known about the Plan. The Ministry of Environment and Forests, the Planning Commission and the Ministry of Science and Technology are all working on a version of the NCAP. The budget proposal of the Finance Ministry to create an ‘institutionalised response’ to climate change is still pending and there is little coordination between various bodies. There has been no open discussion or debate to devise a strategy that will be truly beneficial to the poorest of India’s poor. So what will be India’s position before the world community? Will it continue to refuse to take hard decisions saying it is entitled to economic progress? Or will it realise that in the larger canvas, though the U.S. and industrial North are largely responsible for global warming, it is countries such as India that will be the primary victims? Or will it show global leadership by doing the right things by the country and the planet? [more] |
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| Green People |
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One of the world’s foremost authorities on tigers, Dr. Ullas Karanth is a senior conservation scientist and Director of the US-based Wildlife Conservation Society’s India Programme. Originally trained as an engineer, he even tried farming before finally homing in on wildlife science as his profession. The central thesis of his work has been the connection between prey and predator numbers and the arena of most of his field work has been Karnataka, particularly Nagarahole, though he has, of course, studied tigers across India. Besides dozens of scientific papers, Karanth’s popular books ‘A view from the Machan’ and ‘The way of the tiger’ have been acclaimed widely. The winner of the Sanctuary-ABN AMRO Lifetime Service Award 2007, he speaks here with Bittu Sahgal about tigers, science and conservation.[more]
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| Cub Online |
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| The effects of relationships between species in nature vary greatly. For example, in 'predation', one species eats the other. However, in 'mutualism', both species benefit and neither suffers. Interestingly, the interaction between species isn't always through direct physical contact.[more] |
Dandeli: Jewel of the Western Ghats
Few places on Earth can match the biodiversity of Dandeli, says Yashodhan S. Gharat, just back from a camping trip there.
Paradisical Pench
Every park visit need not result in a big cat sighting, writes Gautam Shah, who enjoys the tranquillity and beauty of Pench |
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| Kids for Tigers |
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Animal Housie
Mumbai Kids for tigers Mumbai held a special event at one of the Crossword outlets on 14th October.
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Ganesh Festival with a message
KFT Akola organised an "Astavinayak Ganesh Mandal" where they had depicted the impact of Global warming.
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Wildlife Week
Kids for Tigers Pune celebrated National Wildlife Week by holding a clay model making session.
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Rivers, grasslands, waterfalls and a rich biodiversity is
what describes unexplored destinations and the road less travelled. |
| Project Tiger |
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Tiger launched in 1973 with nine tiger reserves over an area
of 16,339 sq.km., now protects 37,761 sq.km. in 27 Tiger Reserves.
While saving the tiger, this has also ensured the security of
several lesser known species. [more] |
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| The Royal Bengal Tiger Film Festival | | 18th Jun 2008, NCPA, Mumbai. [more] | |
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