The Palamu Tiger Reserve (PTR) authority has brought 16 sambars from Ranchi’s Bhagwan Birsa Biological Park, popularly known as Birsa Zoo, to increase the prey base for the big cats in Jharkhand’s lone tiger den.
However, food, public distribution and consumer affairs minister Saryu Rai has raised objection over shifting of the animals from zoo to wild and termed it as gross of violation of wildlife norms.
The number of tigers in PTR has dropped to three, which has become cause for concern for authorities. They assign dwindling population of sambar the reason behind fall in numbers of big cats.
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The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper column-inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. Curated by Carl Marshall and Olivia McCarthy
Thursday, 10 August 2017
Wednesday, 9 August 2017
NEWSLINK: Mountain lion P-55 crosses 101 and 118 freeways with all nine lives intact
That old adage about curiosity and the fate of felines didn’t hold true for one Southern California mountain lion recently.
National Park Service researchers say a male mountain lion named P-55 was documented successfully crossing the 101 Freeway — a rare event for the region’s big cats.
P-55, described as a “subadult male,” represents only the fourth case of a successful crossing since the NPS began its mountain lion study in 2002.
The puma also made it across Highway 23 and the 118 Freeway and is currently roaming the Santa Susana Mountains, according to the NPS.
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National Park Service researchers say a male mountain lion named P-55 was documented successfully crossing the 101 Freeway — a rare event for the region’s big cats.
P-55, described as a “subadult male,” represents only the fourth case of a successful crossing since the NPS began its mountain lion study in 2002.
The puma also made it across Highway 23 and the 118 Freeway and is currently roaming the Santa Susana Mountains, according to the NPS.
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SIGHTING, UK: Big cat 'the size of a labrador' spotted in Cambridgeshire
A man is "100 per cent convinced" he is the latest person to spot the fabled "Fen Tiger" of Cambridgeshire.
Steve Lawrence, 60, said he saw a "panther" running across a rural road at 8.20 am on Monday (July 31).
He described witnessing a Labrador-sized dark-brown feline emerge from a bush, dart past his car and cross two lanes of a motorway bypass in three bounds.
The construction site manager, from Over, said he fears the mystery big cat could attack children and pets.
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Steve Lawrence, 60, said he saw a "panther" running across a rural road at 8.20 am on Monday (July 31).
He described witnessing a Labrador-sized dark-brown feline emerge from a bush, dart past his car and cross two lanes of a motorway bypass in three bounds.
The construction site manager, from Over, said he fears the mystery big cat could attack children and pets.
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Thursday, 3 August 2017
NEWSLINK: Did the mountain lion spotted outside Stater Bros. in Tustin kill a pet cat?
At dawn two weeks back, Adam Dupre walked outside his Tustin home to find a devastating sight.
Family cat Shadow lay mortally injured, the victim of an animal attack.
“My husband was crying when he told me, and I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve seen him cry,” said Alisen Dupre.
At first, the couple, who live in a town home complex off Red Hill Avenue, assumed a coyote was to blame — even though coyotes have become a rarity in the area, she said. Still, the deep puncture wounds on Shadow’s body seemed odd.
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Family cat Shadow lay mortally injured, the victim of an animal attack.
“My husband was crying when he told me, and I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve seen him cry,” said Alisen Dupre.
At first, the couple, who live in a town home complex off Red Hill Avenue, assumed a coyote was to blame — even though coyotes have become a rarity in the area, she said. Still, the deep puncture wounds on Shadow’s body seemed odd.
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NEWSLINK: Bengal tigers get bigger sanctuary
Bangladesh has more than doubled the size of the wildlife sanctuary in the world's largest mangrove forest to try to protect endangered Bengal tigers whose numbers have fallen sharply, officials said Tuesday.
More than half or 52 percent of the 6,017 square kilometre (2,325 square mile) Sundarbans – one of the largest habitats of the tigers – has been declared a sanctuary this week, said the government's chief forest conservator Shafiul Alam.
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More than half or 52 percent of the 6,017 square kilometre (2,325 square mile) Sundarbans – one of the largest habitats of the tigers – has been declared a sanctuary this week, said the government's chief forest conservator Shafiul Alam.
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Tuesday, 1 August 2017
NEWSLINK: Paphos Zoo tiger goes wild to boost population
Paphos zoo is celebrating as one of their hand-reared Siberian tiger cubs is about to be released into a protected forest in Russia to help increase the dwindling numbers of the animals in the wild.
Ioulious Christoforou told the Cyprus Mail that he was ecstatic when he heard the news, as he hand-reared the female tiger cub named Aphrodite for the first part of her life. The female cub was born to Siberian tiger, Bonnie and Clyde in April 2015 at Paphos Zoo, but her mother was unable to produce enough milk, so Christoforou stepped in to help.
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Ioulious Christoforou told the Cyprus Mail that he was ecstatic when he heard the news, as he hand-reared the female tiger cub named Aphrodite for the first part of her life. The female cub was born to Siberian tiger, Bonnie and Clyde in April 2015 at Paphos Zoo, but her mother was unable to produce enough milk, so Christoforou stepped in to help.
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NEWSLINK: Mumbai’s Film City shut down after five leopard attacks
The Maharashtra forest department has asked Film City in Goregaon to stop shooting at outdoor sites for the next eight days till a leopard suspected of attacking five children in the area is trapped.
Officials from the Dadasaheb Phalke Chitranagari confirmed that eight locations where films or television series are shot have been closed for at least eight days. Film City is located on the boundary of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), which has a leopard population of over 20, and the Aarey Milk Colony, where the cats are known to enter in search of prey.
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Officials from the Dadasaheb Phalke Chitranagari confirmed that eight locations where films or television series are shot have been closed for at least eight days. Film City is located on the boundary of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), which has a leopard population of over 20, and the Aarey Milk Colony, where the cats are known to enter in search of prey.
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