Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government has formally approached the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) seeking permission to bring a female tiger to the state, the Forest and Environment Minister informed the Assembly. This comes after the state regained its status as a tiger state after three decades, following confirmation of the presence of an approximately five-year-old tiger in the Ratanmahal Wildlife Sanctuary in central Gujarat. Responding to a question during the ongoing Budg...Read More

Ahmedabad: After more than three decades, Gujarat has been formally reinstated as a tiger-present state for the 2026 census, following confirmed photographic evidence of a tiger in the Ratanmahal Wildlife Sanctuary in Dahod. A camera-trap enumeration will now be carried out along the Gujarat–Madhya Pradesh border as part of the All-India Tiger Estimation (AITE) 2026, which began in Indore last week. Officials said the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has issued directions for tige...Read More

Vadodara: According to credible reports from insiders in the Forest Department, a tiger has been living in the Ratanmahal Wildlife Sanctuary of Panchmahal district for the past nine months. The tiger is believed to have migrated from the forests of Madhya Pradesh in February. With the tiger now permanently staying in Ratanmahal, experts say this could pave the way for the revival of the tiger population in Gujarat, which had been officially declared extinct over two decades ago. The Gujarat gov...Read More