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14 tiger cubs have been spotted in a reserve in north-western India, forestry officials say.
The sightings are a rare piece of good news in the fight to halt the steep decline in tiger numbers in India.
Forestry officials in Ranthambhore National Park in Rajasthan say the cubs are from several mothers and have been seen regularly in recent months.
Ranthambore had just 32 tigers at the last count. India is thought to have 1,500 tigers, half the world’s total.
But conservationists say they face extinction unless urgent action is taken to save them.
Ranthambore has seen tiger numbers fall from 46 in 2004.
The park authorities are currently conducting a new tiger census and up-to-date figures - which will include the new cubs - are expected in June.

RS Shekhawat, deputy field director at Ranthambore, said the sightings of the cubs was “good news for all of us”.

“Credit goes to both governments - state and federal, the forest authorities and also local people for this positive development,” he told the BBC.
Ranthambore covers 392 sq.km. of dry deciduous forests sprawling over undulating terrain. The BBC’s Narayan Bareth in Jaipur says forest officials want more space for the tigers.
“We are contemplating expanding the habitat area for the tiger population because the population is on the rise,” Mr Shekhawat said.
Nearly 100 villages surround the park, and the more the tiger population grows the more they are likely to come into conflict with humans.
The Wildlife Trust of India’s state co-ordinator, Mahendra Kachhawa, urged the authorities to tighten security at the park. In 2005 it was reported that tigers had been wiped out at another park in Rajasthan, the Sariska sanctuary. That prompted the setting up of a tiger taskforce in India.

Wildlife experts welcomed the latest news, saying they also had information about sightings of tiger cubs in other reserves.

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Big cats living in Kenya’s Maasai Mara game reserve are being threatened by a collapse in revenues from wildlife tourism, it has been claimed.

The Mara Conservancy says tourists have stayed away since the violence which followed last year’s disputed election.

The group, which manages a 510 sq km area called the Mara Triangle, can no longer pay pastoralists compensation for cattle killed by lions or leopards.

This could force local people to kill the cats in order to protect livestock.

William Deed, from the Mara Conservancy, said that it was facing a shortfall of $50,000 per month.

The non-profit organisation relies on a percentage of park entrance fees paid by tourists.

Since it was founded in 2001, and the compensation scheme established, the number of lions in the reserve has doubled to 80.

But now the fund has been suspended, some Maasai have threatened to resume hunting the lions and leopards which kill their cows, goats and sheep.

“We have now had several close calls with locals hunting lions and leopards in return for the cattle that have been killed by these predators,” said Mr Deed.

“Previously, the cattle compensation scheme we had in place would help placate such situations, however with no funding to pay for such a scheme the local communities are no longer seeing the benefits of living so closely with the wildlife.”

He said the current situation was leading to strained relations with local communities.

The Mara Conservancy has met with local elders, but each time one of their animals is killed with no money for compensation, the “tension mounts”, Mr Deed explained.

“It may be only a matter of time until rangers won’t be so lucky in stopping cattle owners from taking their own measures to protect cattle,” he added.

Cuts in electricity are also making the job of rangers increasingly dangerous. Part of their job involves catching armed cattle rustlers who often make their escape through the Mara Triangle.

But the area now lacks power for 11 hours out of every 24, meaning that communications are often down between the main station and patrol teams.

The dire funding situation has also forced the organisation to stop night patrols.

Poachers were already profiting from the situation, said Mr Deed: groups of men had been seen using torches to hunt Thomson Gazelles at night.

Last month, the rangers have caught five poachers, including three men who killed a hippo for its meat.

Even though the worst of the violence in Kenya has subsided, Mr Deed said it would take time for the tourist trade to pick up again.

For now, he explained, the organisation was operating only on small donations from individuals across the world.

April was a strong month, both in terms of visitor numbers and new advertisers on the website.

This month we welcomed fourteen new breeders; 11 from the US and 3 from the UK

In April, visitors viewed 79,778 pages on the website - slightly up on March, despite there being a day less in the month. There were 15,114 visitors to the website.

Other statistics so the Google PageRank of the homepage and the blog climb from PR3 -> PR4 and many of the internal pages of the website also increased as well.

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