Human Activity and Large Wildlife Overlapped Most in Chitwan’s Buffer Zone
Across 80 camera traps around Chitwan National Park, human activity and large wildlife showed their strongest spatial and…
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One Male Tiger Confirmed in Bhutan’s Biological Corridor 7
A 5,144-trap-night survey photographed one adult male tiger at two stations in Bhutan’s Biological Corridor 7, confirming use…
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Female Tigers Returned More Often and Stayed Longer Than Males in Panna
GPS tracking of 12 resident tigers in Panna Tiger Reserve showed higher revisitation and residence times in females…
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Tiger Recovery Was Not Consistently Linked to More Human–Tiger Conflict
A 2010–2025 synthesis from ten tiger range countries found no consistent relationship between tiger population size and total…
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Key Movement Bottlenecks for Five Large Mammals Lay Outside Protected Areas in Tamil Nadu
A 2026 study of tiger, leopard, dhole, Asian elephant and gaur identified modelled movement bottlenecks outside protected areas,…
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First tiger released into Kazakhstan’s wild in more than 70 years
A female Amur tiger named Ümit has been released into Kazakhstan’s Ile-Balkhash reserve, marking the first return of…
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More Than Half of 245 Tiger Attacks in Nepal’s Terai Arc Landscape Were Fatal
A study of 245 tiger attacks in Nepal’s Terai Arc Landscape from 2010–2024 found that 57.6% were fatal,…
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Feline Panleukopenia Virus Confirmed in Four Free-Ranging Bengal Tiger Cubs
A 2026 study confirmed feline panleukopenia virus by PCR in four free-ranging Bengal tiger cubs from South India.…
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Nepal’s Wild Tiger Estimate Rose from 355 to 429 in Four Years
Nepal’s 2026 national tiger survey estimated 429 wild tigers, up from 355 in 2022. Numbers increased in four…
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A Modelled Belt of Suitable Tiger Habitat Stretched Between Ratapani, Singhori and Kheoni
Tiger signs recorded in 2018–2019 fed into five habitat models that mapped a largely continuous belt of high…
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Annual Human Injuries and Deaths From Tiger Attacks Rose From 4.6 to 11.4 Around Chitwan–Parsa
A ten-year study around Chitwan and Parsa National Parks recorded 80 human injuries and deaths from tiger attacks.…
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Amur Tiger IL-15 Reduced FPV-Induced Stress and Apoptosis in Cultured Feline Cells
Researchers cloned six immune-related cytokines from four healthy Amur tigers in China. Recombinant IL-15 produced the strongest sustained…
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Habitat and Prey Were More Strongly Linked to Leopard Persistence Than Tiger Suppression in Bhutan
Bhutan's first nationwide leopard-density analysis estimated 1.02 leopards per 100 km², while repeated surveys showed that habitat and…
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110 of 259 Publicly Documented Tiger Seizure Incidents Were Linked to Prison or Fines
A review of 259 tiger-related seizure incidents in seven Southeast Asian countries linked 110 to imprisonment and/or fines…
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Pati-DRB*02 Was Associated With E. bieneusi Detection in Five of 32 Captive Amur Tigers
Five of 32 captive Amur tigers tested positive for Enterocytozoon bieneusi. One MHC class II DRB allele, Pati-DRB*02,…
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Settlement Proximity Was the Strongest Model Predictor of Tiger and Leopard Livestock Depredation in Panna
A spatial study around Panna Tiger Reserve found settlement distance was the strongest MaxEnt predictor for both tiger…
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Fecal DNA Methylation Estimated Amur Tiger Age With a Mean Error of About 7.4 Months
DNA methylation in fecal samples from Amur tigers of known age produced a preliminary age-prediction model with a…
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Nine Indian species could anchor protection for biodiversity and carbon
A national analysis identifies nine threatened Indian vertebrates whose habitat could act as an anchor for protecting hundreds…
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Urine and Scat Chemical Profiles Distinguished Tiger From Leopard With 79% and 75% Cross-validated Accuracy
Chemical profiles from tiger and leopard urine and scat reached about 79% and 75% species-classification accuracy in five-fold…
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Tigers kept a stable daily activity pattern across seasons while deer shifted in Bardia
Five years of camera-trap data from Bardia National Park showed that tiger activity remained similar across seasons, while…
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