India Today

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Few causes have been championed as steadfastly in the past 50 years in India as wildlife conservation. The country’s sheer variety of species in the wild overshadows even Africa—that paradise of wildlife in the eyes of enthusiasts. At the time of ind

Signature Luxury Travel & Style

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Through a haze of hotheadedness and unprovoked angst, I vaguely remember how I spent my formative years as a teenager. Moping around the house, complaining about the fact I had nothing to wear; spending hours getting ready to go out to that club on a

Futurity

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Nearly 15,000 miles of new Asian roads will be built in tiger habitat by mid-century, deepening the big cat’s extinction risk, according to a new study. Researchers say the findings highlight the need for bold new conservation measures now. Researche

You South Africa

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30 That’s how many years the Hubble Space Telescope has been around. The telescope takes amazing pictures of space, helping to improve our understanding of the universe. That’s why many believe the Hubble is one of the most significant scientific too

BBC Wildlife Magazine

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The sun was getting low over Bardia National Park, Nepal. As wildlife photographer Emmanuel Rondeau and his guide made their way back to camp, they spotted a group of chital deer not far from the park’s border. Huddling tightly and casting furtive gl

Amateur Photographer

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WHEN Sergey Gorshkov was named 2020 Wildlife Photographer of the Year for this remarkable photo, it was the culmination of a dream that began two winters before. Back in January 2019, in the Land of the Leopard National Park, Gorshkov installed the f

Shooting Times & Country

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There are few things more satisfying than achieving a lifetime’s ambition — I did that in 2016 when I visited the hill country of northern India described so evocatively in the books of Jim Corbett. Born in 1875 in the town of Nainital in the foothil

MiniMag

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Huge, pointed canine teeth seize the tiger’s prey and deliver the killing bite. Tiger cubs feed on their mother’s milk until they are about six months old. They do not open their eyes until they are one or two weeks old. Silence and stealth when ambu

Australian Photography

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Photographer Sergey Gorshkov has been named as this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year for his image, The Embrace, featuring an Amur tigress hugging an ancient Manchurian fir in the Russian Far East. Amur, or Siberian, tigers are only found in

Overland Journal

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Regular readers may recall that I have spent a great deal of my flexible time as an amateur poisonous snake wrangler and own a Ford F250 that was purpose-built for this task. I know this will come as a shock to many, but I’m considering giving it up.

This Week in Asia

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Indonesian villager Mawi, 74, knows all the secrets of ensnaring a full-grown tiger. For five decades, he risked his life trudging deep into the jungles of South Sumatra's Kerinci Seblat National Park (TNKS), setting up elaborate traps to catch and k

PEARL

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At first glance, the immeasurably rich diversity in nature sometimes seems to be utterly inordinate, as, for example, the jumbled, swirling array of organisms that we can observe through a microscope in a drop of water appears to confirm at first gla

Home & Decor

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The earliest documented sighting of a tiger in Singapore was in 1831. It reported that a Chinese national had been killed by one. The island’s lush virgin jungles were home to prey like pigs and deer, thus making them ideal hunting grounds for tigers

Futurity

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Expanding roads and completion of a planned railway in Nepal’s Chitwan National Park could increase deaths of endangered tigers, disrupt habitats, and exacerbate other threats to biodiversity, a new study shows. Using an advanced simulation model, re

BBC Wildlife Magazine

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New analysis casts doubt on official claims that tiger numbers have doubled in India over the last decade. Last July, the Indian government announced that the country had fulfilled its pledge, made at the 2010 Tiger Summit in St Petersburg, to double

Man Magnum

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THIS HUNT TOOK place in a very interestin ea known as the Duaars, situated between the independent former Royal State of Cooch Behar to the South, and Bhutan, an independent Hill State lying between Tibet and the Northern oundary of Bengal. The Duaar

Futurity

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Some of Asia’s largest animals are defying 12,000 years of extinction trends by thriving alongside humans, a study finds. Others are less fortunate. Researchers scoured paleontological records to compare the historic distribution of Asia’s 14 largest

NPR

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By Tuesday, the tiger was headed to a sanctuary outside the city, while officials have launched a criminal probe in search of its owner.

Digital Camera World

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Global population: 447,500 (in the wild). Endangered The largest living land mammals on Earth, elephants are intelligent and emotional, often working together to help teach and look after their young. There are an estimated 447,500 elephants left on

Literary Hub

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At first I was merely charmed. A tigress at the Louisville Zoo gave birth to a litter of cubs, and I visited weekly, watching them grow from tottering fuzzballs into leaping, pouncing youngsters. The best visits yielded stories: the day little Leela

MoneyWeek

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It’s incredible that the vast area of the southernmost Pantanal wetlands, in Brazil’s southwestern cattle-farming region, is privately owned, and not a national reserve, says Lisa Grainger in The Times. Fortunately, Roberto Klabin, owner of Casa Caim

Travel & Leisure India & South Asia

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Do you have a favourite among the big cats? The tiger is my number one, because I have spent more time photographing tigers than any other cat. I feel they have a magical quality and majesty that perhaps only one other cat can match—the jaguar. The

Tatler Singapore

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Simon Clinton’s affinity with tigers started while he was growing up in Malaysia in the early 1970s, and became familiar with the country’s national symbol—the Malayan tiger. This early exposure, along with a passion for conservation issues, stirred

Creative Steps

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STORE CUPBOARD ■ Cardboard tubes ■ White, black & orange paints ■ Paint brush ■ Fine liner pen ■ Thin card ■ Scissors ■ Wiggly eyes ■ Strong glue 1 Paint a short cardboard tube white and leave to dry. 2 When dry, paint the tube orange, leaving the tu

Travel & Leisure India & South Asia

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FOR ACCLAIMED WILDLIFE photographer Sudhir Shivaram, the love affair with Corbett National Park started in 2013 on a family trip. He had heard a lot about the forest, but the trip still managed to amaze him. Ever since, he has visited his favourite f

Outdoor Photographer

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Cries of peacocks pierce the dust hanging in the 100-degree air. An Indian roller, blue wings flashing, swoops to the ground and nabs an insect. The deafening whine of cicadas sizzles overhead as our Jeep winds through the towering forest of sal tree

Amateur Photographer

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It’s always a treat to see the winning images from the Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. Now in its 56th year, once again the final images from the prestigious contest represent the best of the best when it comes

NPR

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The country counted a total of 2,967 wild tigers, an increase of more than 30% in four years.

NPR

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A humble farmer from a marginalized tribal community takes on a solo mission to reforest an island in the northeastern state of Assam.

Futurity

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New research is among the first to interview the buyers of pressure-cooked tiger bones, known as “tiger bone glue,” which, in parts of Asia, is perceived as a remedy for a variety of ailments. Thousands of tigers, bred on farms like pigs and raised i