Bengal tiger Archives - WildCats Conservation Alliance

How do you count tigers? India’s national tiger count

By amyvangelderBlog

Tiger populations plummeted from around 100,000 individuals in the early 20th century to 3,000 individuals in 2010, occupying just 7% of their original range. We were facing the very real...

9th April 2022

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Tiger conservation in Nepal – A roaring success

By amyvangelderNews, ZSL Nepal

Dedicated conservation efforts have resulted in Parsa National Park becoming one of the most important tiger recovery sites in Nepal. The history Since 2015 WildCats has been funding work to...

30th September 2021

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Tigers beyond protected areas

By estherconwayBlog

Tigers know no boundaries! Dr Hem Baral Under a strong leadership from the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC) and supported by a host of remarkable tiger conservation...

17th May 2021

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Bennetts – saving tigers in Nepal

By estherconwayNews

Saving tigers in Nepal © ZSL/DNPWC WildCats Conservation Alliance has been receiving consistent donations from the tiger loving team at Bennetts, a coffee importer and distributor from Melbourne, Australia since...

22nd April 2021

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Wild tigers in Nepal – a report update

By estherconwayNews

ZSL Nepal has been conserving wild tiger in Nepal for over 25 years and in the Parsa National Park (PNP) and its buffer zone since 2014. WildCats Conservation Alliance has...

16th April 2021

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World Wildlife Day

By estherconwayBlog, News

On 3rd March 1973, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) was signed and in 2013 the United Nations declared that this day...

2nd March 2021

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Nepal’s tigers

By estherconwayNews

ZSL has been conserving Nepal's tigers in partnership with Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC) and local conservation partners for over 25 years. It is currently working across...

15th September 2020

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How is COVID-19 affecting wildlife conservation?

By estherconwayBlog, News

How is the COVID-19 pandemic affecting wildlife conservation? We've just heard from the ZSL team working in Nepal on how they are managing. Thanks to Prachanda Maharjan field officer based...

7th April 2020

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Parsa National Park update

By estherconwayNews, ZSL Nepal

ZSL Nepal has supported the Government's ongoing investment in Parsa National Park (PNP), facilitating the additional of 129 km2 in 2015 (PNPea) and subsequently its upgrade to a national park...

20th March 2020

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Give a gift to big cats this festive season…

By estherconwayBlog

Give a gift and a future to big cats this festive season… Successful wildlife conservation is about the mixing of many elements. The alchemy happens when you bring scientific expertise...

13th November 2019

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Mitigating human/tiger conflict – ZSL Nepal

By estherconwayNews

Interim report summary This Human/Tiger Conflict project funded by WildCats, builds on recent work by ZSL in the Parsa National Park extension area. After spending four years, assessing, monitoring and protecting...

8th October 2019

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Increasing tiger numbers

By estherconwayNews

How are our tigers in Chitwan-Parsa complex? Nepal has managed to nearly double its tiger population in the last ten years – an amazing feat in tiger conservation. However, as...

2nd July 2019

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Aaranyak final report 2017-18

https://conservewildcats.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/05/AaranyakFinal_Technical-Report_Indo-BhutanTransboundaryTigers.pdf

5th March 2019

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Indo-Bhutan landscape monitoring report

By estherconwayNews

Indian field exploration © Aaranyak The Transboundary Manas Conservation Area (TraMCA) of the Indo-Bhutan landscape, is a significant tiger habitat that has the potential to double its tiger population within...

5th March 2019

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Himalayan Nature Final Report 2018

https://conservewildcats.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/01/HimalayanNatureTiger_Habitat_Assessment_Nepal_Final_Report_2018.pdf

22nd January 2019

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Coexistence with tigers | Opinion Piece

By Blog

Coexistence in culture Coexistence with tigers is something that has happened for generations, right across the indigenous range of wild tigers. In Kerinci Seblat, Sumatra, each village is believed to have...

20th September 2018

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Coexistence with tigers, large carnivore attacks

Large carnivore attacks on humans in central India: A case study from the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve

By Conservation Papers

Abstract We examined human and ecological attributes of attacks by tigers Panthera tigris and leopards Panthera pardus on humans in and around the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve in the Chandrapur District...

20th September 2018

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Species, sex and geo-location identification of seized tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) parts in Nepal

By estherconwayConservation Papers

Abstract Tiger (Panthera tigris) populations are in danger across their entire range due to habitat loss, poaching and the demand for tiger parts. The Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) is...

17th September 2018

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Himalayan Nature Interim 2018

https://conservewildcats.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2018/09/HimalayanNatureHabitatSuitabilityNepalInterimReport18.pdf

12th September 2018

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ZSL Nepal interim report 2018

https://conservewildcats.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2018/08/ZSL-Nepal-Interim-reportAugust-2018forweb.pdf

23rd August 2018

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Securing the future for Nepal’s tigers

By estherconwayNews

Last week we received the interim report from the ZSL Nepal team that are using their WildCats grant in the Parsa National Park (PNP) to continue monitoring the tiger population...

23rd August 2018

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How we select projects

By estherconwayBlog

Many people ask how we select projects to support, and as we are starting the process for selecting next year’s proposals, Crissie suggested this might be the topic of our...

30th June 2018

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Counting tigers in Nepal

By Blog, News

Now into our third year of funding this exciting work, counting tigers in Nepal, this blog from the field explores the remarkable recovery that wild tigers are making in the...

3rd May 2018

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All-India Tiger Census 2018 to be Hi-Tech, More Accurate and Precise

By estherconwayNews

The All-India Tiger Estimation, 2018 exercise promises not just to be hi-tech, but will also be far more accurate and precise than ever before. Officers from National Tiger Conservation Authority…

30th March 2018

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Counting tiger prey using remote cameras

By estherconwayBlog, UCL/IOZ Tigers & Idu

Sahil Nijhawan PhD, writes about the novel methods of counting animals devised to assist his study of tigers in the remote area of north eastern India. Arunachal Pradesh, India In the...

10th January 2018

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Aaranyak interim 2017

https://conservewildcats.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/WildCats/ProjectReports/India/AaranyakIndo-Bhutan-Tiger_Mid-TermReport2017.pdf

8th January 2018

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