http://www.dickysingh.com On Tigers, Wildlife, Nature & Conservation in Ranthambhore National Park & Beyond Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:43:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here is an article that I wrote for the Sanctuary magazine: A few weeks ago, I received a scathing response from a ‘tiger activist’ friend to an article I had posted online about the conservation value of tourism. After blasting my views, he finally stated that what tigers really need ... http://www.dickysingh.com/2008/10/the-tourism-conundrum-an-insider-responds/ Greetings from the team at The Ranthambhore Bagh on the occasion of our festival of lights http://www.dickysingh.com/2008/10/happy-diwali/ It’s been a long time since I posted on the blog. I was on a long vacation and got back to Ranthambhore about 3 weeks ago and since then I have been busy trying to make a living. Yes some of us have to do that. Here are some updates ... http://www.dickysingh.com/2008/10/update-from-ranthambhore/ Yesterday afternoon (1st September 2008) the carcass of a tigress was found in the Guda area, that lies at the southern end of the Ranthambore national park. This tigress was known as the Guda female (see image below) and was over 10 years old – an old age for wild ... http://www.dickysingh.com/2008/09/tigress-found-dead-in-ranthambhore/ ……….About a year ago the Rajasthan Forest Department declared that they would relocate tigers from Ranthambhore to Sariska to right the wrong. When they fist came out with this plan almost everyone (including me) laughed at it. Most people (not me this time) had declared Sariska as history. A few ... http://www.dickysingh.com/2008/07/ranthambhore-%e2%80%93-sariska-and-tiger-shuttle-%e2%80%93-part-ii/ About an hour ago I checked my mail and got a shock. There was this comment on my last post (Shooting with Andy Rouse) from Anubhav, who I presume is a person of Indian origin living in the USA. It goes something like this (for those who are too lazy ... http://www.dickysingh.com/2008/07/ranthambhore-%e2%80%93-sariska-and-tiger-shuttle-%e2%80%93-part-i/ One great thing about living in Ranthambhore is that you end up meeting some of the best nature photographers in the world. I have been fortunate and have worked with some of the biggest names in nature photography. The best time I have ever had – fun and learning – ... http://www.dickysingh.com/2008/07/shooting-with-andy-rouse/ We finally got all the work in Indala finished and did it just in time. The monsoons have arrived here and the rains make most of the tracks to Indala impassable. All the three wells were dug some time ago, the waterholes are ready, the water recharging structures done and ... http://www.dickysingh.com/2008/06/indala-plateau-%e2%80%93-final-for-this-year/ In my last post I had written about digging of wells and making waterholes in the Indala plateau. We just finished digging the third well and have got three water holes going already. The three wells were dug near non-perennial streams and in places where there were “small wells” (locally ... http://www.dickysingh.com/2008/03/indala-plateau/ For the last two years the tiger numbers in Ranthambhore National Park have been going up and soon there will be more tigers than the park can accommodate. A few sub adult tigers are already drifting out of the park, where the protection levels are not as high as they ... http://www.dickysingh.com/2008/01/water-security-in-ranthambhore/