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Trap Cage preparation for catching Leopard in The Serai Resorts vicinity.

As the Climate suggests, it is raining at regular intervals in Kabini which has had a direct impact on occupancy at our resort. Yet there is a set of clienteles who visit our resort every three months to experience the Forest in all its colours. We are four Naturalists here at Kabini and are having the much awaited free time of the year when we can go for Nature-walks around the Resort all by ourselves. As a part of our Eco-Tourism Project, the staffs consist of 90% locales and accompany us on such Walks, helping us in noticing minute interesting features of Nature. They provide us with a first hand knowledge of the Local culture & history too. It’s been long since we thought of putting up a write-up which will help our guests and nature enthusiasts to get some preliminary information of what they can look for while on a Nature-walk or Safari during this part of the year. This time we were able to put some words and pictures together which I would like to share with everybody. Kabi...

The latest numbers of wild tigers in India has just been announced , and as usual there are views and counter views . The good news is that there is an increase compared to the last census.This is an attempt to try and make some sense of the debate. I compiling a series of links in one place so that you can go through all of them to try and make some sense of the whole thing and come to an informed decision. The first link announcing the upcoming good news. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/tiger-census-brings-10-cheer/767588/ A critique of the entire census process. http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/how-they-count-our-tigers A link to an excellent discussion by various experts on the entire exercise.(there is a 30 sec. commercial followed by the actual programme - rather long but a must watch ) http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/news/tiger-census-295-tigers-added-population-estimated-at-1706/194831 Dr.Ullas Karanth's response. RESPONSE TO THE NATIONAL TIGER ESTIMATION RE...

TIGER SUB-SPECIES Earlier there were Nine subspecies of tiger, but human killing has left only six of them: Siberian (Amur) tigers : Panthera tigris altaica Siberian tigers hold the distinction of being the biggest of the world’s big cats. A typical male Amur tiger may weigh more than 250kg & measure nearly 3Mts from nose to tip of tail. They live along the forests of Amur River, a natural boundary line between Russia & China on the east coast. Amur tiger populations have been severely reduced by poaching, poaching of prey and habitat destruction. Only around 500 individuals exist in the world. Royal Bengal tigers : Panthera tigris tigris The Bengal tiger is most numerous of tigers in the wild today. It lives in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar (Burma) and Nepal, with India home to the biggest population. It mostly inhabits the deciduous forests of central and south India, the Terai-Duar grassland and Sal forests of the Himalayan foothills, and the Temperate forests ...

Some cutouts showing how dangerous the Mysor-Ooty highway cuting right through Bandipur National Park (under Project Tiger) has become for the Wildlife........... From Bandipur Highway Encounters From Bandipur Highway Encounters

Tigress Phobia Vanishes at last : This Tigress was first spotted inside our Resort property in CICADA RESORTS-KABINI, by Mr. Sarat C.R., Chief Naturalist – Taj CC Africa and Mr. Lokesh, Naturalist on last week of December'2008. It was sitting quietly under a bush just outside the Nilgiri Plantation. The next few weeks were the most exiting, thrilling and of course fear ruled through the hearts of the Locales as more and more Pugmarks were sighted near the Villa where a small stream probably attracted it almost every two to three days. Many of our staffs started spotting it either resting far on the bushes or crossing our entry road in late evenings. Our Naturalist Mr. Guru also managed to click a photo of it during mid January'09 while it was sitting under a bush just beside our usual nature walk route in mid-afternoon. The very next day around 10am one of our staffs spotted it having a Wild Boar very near to same spot where it was seen the day before and in panic both started...