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  Crackdown on slaughterhouses forces lions, tigers to survive on white meat in Lucknow

  India | March 24, 2017 11:04 IST

  The crackdown on illegal slaughterhouses and meat shops by the Yogi Adityanath-led government is forcing lions and tigers of Lucknow Zoo to eat chicken and mutton.

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  India lost over 100 tigers this year: Govt

  India | December 05, 2016 21:39 IST

  Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave today said that over 100 tigers have died in various parts of the country since January this year. "The number of tigers died from January 2016 till date is106 as

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  Number of tigers rises for first time in 100 years; India leads tally

  India | May 03, 2016 21:30 IST

  New Delhi: In what marks a turnaround from the estimates that have been made so far, the number of tigers in India has gone up to 2,226, the Parliament was informed today. In the year

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  Amitabh Bachchan, Sachin Tendulkar urged to help protect tigers

  Bollywood | August 04, 2015 22:29 IST

  Mumbai: In a bid to increase the tiger population, the Maharashtra government wants Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan and cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar to be 'brand ambassadors' for a tiger project.Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar said he

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  NGT asks West Bengal govt to demolish illegal structures in Sunderbans

  India | January 23, 2015 12:33 IST

  Kolkata: The National Green Tribunal has directed the West Bengal government to demolish illegal constructions coming up in the Sunderbans, habitat of the Royal Bengal tigers and the world's largest mangrove forest.  The tribunal's East

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  Black tigers unique to Odisha on the verge of extinction; 28 remain

  India | January 23, 2015 9:24 IST

  New Delhi: While the number of tigers has shot up, black tigers, unique to Odisha are on the edge of extinction.Odish's melanistic tiger - a rare gene pool on which the black stripes are far

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  NGO opposes move to shift tigers from MP to Sariska Reserve

  India | April 12, 2013 13:26 IST

  Bhopal, Apr 12: Protesting the proposed move of National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) to shift few tigers from Madhya Pradesh to Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan to arrest their dwindling population in the desert state,

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  Bangalore Surgeons Peform 6-Hour Dental Surgery On Two Tigers

  India | September 11, 2010 15:01 IST

  In a pioneering effort, a five-member team of surgeons performed a six-hour dental surgery to ease the pain on two tigers from Bannerghatta National Park, reports Mirror. The team of five surgeons needed close to