Le retour du tigre en Europe: le blog d'Alain Sennepin

L'ETAT DU BENGALE OCCIDENTAL SOUHAITE LA CREATION D'UN REFUGE POUR TIGRES DANS LES SUNDARBANS (Times of India, ce jour).

KOLKATA: The state on Friday said the full-fledged work on the 100-acre plot at Sunderbans' Jharkhali for a tiger rescue centre would start soon as the government has been able to draw some compensation package for the refugees, who are still occupying the plot. make it unnecessary to send them for treatment to the state's lone tiger rescue centre at Khairbari in Jaldapara.

The land for the rescue centre is under the control of the refugee relief and rehabilitation department.

approved a 100-acre plot for setting up a tiger conservation and rescue centre at Jharkhali in the Sunderbans.

An ecotourism park on a 99-acre plot, to be developed on the same island in the mangroves, has also got a green signal of the state cabinet. in Jharkhali will be set up on 99 acre plot.

It is currently seeking clearance from the Central Zoo Authority of India for the second tiger rescue centre at Jharkhali in the Sunderbans and for that the state is seeking clearance of Central Zoos Authority. The centre will treat injured tigers rescued from the Sunderbans and thus bring an end to the practice of sending tigers to Alipore zoo or Khairbari near Jaldapara for treatment. The state also has plans to provide the refugees an alternate dwelling place.

Derniers éléments (mois de février) sur des tigres en Province Maritime (source : Phoenix Fund, hier). Pour le cas du 14 février, le jeune tigre blessé a cherché l'aide des humains en stratégie de dernier recours (voir le détail ci après, article du Moscow Times du 15 février). Ce n'est pas une première : une tigresse épuisée et incapable d'assurer le couvert de son petit s'en était remise, il y a quelques années, aux bons soins d'un soldat russe en poste sur la frontière avec la Chine (info gracieusement transmise par Larissa Issaeïva).

February 5, 2013. A woman’s attempt to sell Amur tiger skeleton was thwarted when the buyers she met with turned out to be police officers. The remains of a tiger cub – a skull, legs and rib cage – were found in the boot of her car. Police investigators believe that the tiger derivatives could have been forwarded to China where tiger bones are traditionally used in medicine. A 32-year-old woman was questioned by investigators. She told that she got tiger parts from her two friends. According to police sources, the two suspected accomplices are the locals of Nikitovka village (Pozharsky district of Primorye) – a 60-year-old man and a 62-year-old fellow. They claimed that when riding horses in the woods they found a package with tiger bones.  Police have started a criminal investigation into the killing of the endangered species. (Source: RIA-NOVOSTI)

February 14, 2013. Wildlife managers rescued a 6-month-old tiger cub caught in a trap in Kavalerovsky district. The animal was extremely emaciated. His leg was seriously traumatized. The cub was transported to Arseniev town where it was urgently operated by veterinarians. After the surgery, the animal was taken to the Utyos Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in Khabarovsky krai. . (Source: RIA-NOVOSTI)

February 17, 2013. Ussuriisky police officers and wildlife managers arrested two residents charged with killing a tiger. The detained suspects had killed an Amur tiger and then tried to sell its skin, bones and cartilages. It was determined that the 4-year-old tiger was killed two weeks ago. A criminal proceeding on tiger poaching was initiated.  (Source: ITAR-TASS)

UNE TIGRESSE RETROUVEE MORTE A NAGARAHOLE DIMANCHE 17 FEVRIER (deuxième cas en quelques semaines sur le même secteur) A ETE  EMPOISONNEE (The Hindu, ce jour). AU KARNATAKA, UN PLAN CHERCHE DESORMAIS A EMPECHER LA DESTRUCTION DES TIGRES PAR EMPOISONNEMENT (Times of India, hier). LES SAISIES DE PRODUITS ISSUS DE L'ANIMAL SONT EN FORTE HAUSSE AU NEPAL ET AU TIBET, EN LIEN DIRECT AVEC L'AUGMENTATION DU BRACONNAGE EN INDE DU NORD AU COURS DES DIX DERNIERES ANNEES (Hindustan Times, hier).

 

 

 

  The carcass of the tiger was found on the fringes of Nagarahole National Park on Sunday. Photo: Special Arrangement

Second such incident near Nagarahole National Park

The tigress, which was found dead close to Metikuppe near H.D. Kote on the fringes of Nagarahole National Park on Sunday, was poisoned, says the post-mortem report.

As it is the second such case in the vicinity of the national park, this incident has sent shock waves among conservationists and Forest Department staff, who are at their wits end to tackle the alarming trend. The carcass of the tiger found near D.B. Kuppe in January too had traces of poison.

Bhaskar Rao, Inspector-General of Police, forest cell, said the incident could not be treated as a forest offence but a criminal offence. He told The Hindu: “We will have to invoke the provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the Code for Criminal Procedure and go to the roots of the case to identify and book the offenders.”

An official from the Forest Department said the post-mortem report indicated that the prima facie cause of the tigress’ death was poisoning. “The tigress — about eight-years-old — had eaten the carcass of a cattle and collapsed within 150 meters of the kill. There were strong indications of presence of metacid, a chemical. A close inspection of the site indicated that soon after eating the carcass, the tiger dragged and hurled itself forward from the site towards the jungles in a desperate bid to overcome nausea and trauma and vomited all along. A few crows too were found dead in the area and we have collected samples and sent them for tests,” the official said.

Thorough probe

Describing the development as alarming, the official said this calls for a thorough investigation and until the guilty are brought to book there would be deterrence against such incidents. Preliminary investigations and spot inspection on Sunday indicated that there was no foul play by poachers as the claws and skin were intact. “Death of tigers by poisoning is a new trend and the specially constituted Special Tiger Task Force is not capable of addressing the issue as poisoning can be attributed to social issues arising out of man-animal conflict,” he said.

Sanjay Gubbi, member, State Wildlife Board, said the issue raised serious questions about the delay in distributing compensation to the people affected by wildlife, who are living on the fringes of the forests. “Timely and adequate compensation is the need of the hour. Conflicts cannot be reduced to zero but they can be minimised to tolerable limits by winning the support of the local community through timely distribution of relief,” he said.

 

 

2. MYSORE: Increasing incidents of tiger deaths due to poisoning has made the officials of the tiger project to work out an action plan to end this menace of targeting big cats by mischievous elements. Death of two of the three tigers due to poisoning has left worried the officials. Of the three tigers which died in the recent past including one on Sunday have been found to be poisoned by the villagers .

What has made the issue more complicated is this is the new modus operandi being adopted by tiger mafia to employ the villagers and persuade them to poison the tigers which invade their villages to prey on their livestock. Tiger's trait of it's return to eat the left over of the prey has made it easy for villagers allegedly employed by poachers to poison the kill before the tiger visits it next day. Sunday's incident typically fitted this format as officials have found an empty packet of a pesticide and two crows dead near the carcass of the cow which was killed by the tiger . Even tiger was found dead hardly 100 mts from the spot where the half eaten cow carcass was lying .

Now officials of the tiger project have decided to take head on the mischievous elements through an action plan which has a positive approach to the issue. As per the plan, project tiger officials with the help of Special Tiger Protection Force(STPF) members will create a data base of all the cattle heads in the villages located inside and on the periphery of the tiger sanctuaries and territorial forests.

This data base even have pictures of cattle population and their owners and cowboys who graze them. Project tiger officials are even planning to announce a compensation package for farmers and the cattle owners whose animals are preyed on by tigers .

In addition, number of members of STPF will be increased and they will part of stepped up vigil package on this score. Disclosing the implementation of this ne security project in next couple of days, project tiger direct B J Hosmath said this plan will automatically eliminate mischievous elements which will act as stooge in the hands of poachers gangs. First the vigil and data base help officials to identify the cattle owner instantaneously and second the compensation package will help the villagers to avoid mischievous elements. " We want to tackle the problem through positive approach instead of curbing and searching for poachers" Hosmath felt , adding that this is worked out by project tiger officials itself and confident of achieving results.

 

3. Poachers killing tigers for money are back with vengeance with seizure of at-least seven tiger skins and over 160 kilogram of tiger bones in the Tibet-Nepal border hinting at revival of the popular smuggling route into China.Three major tiger and leopard body part hauls in different districts of Nepal in the month of January has triggered panic among the wildlifers who claim that the recent seizures show that the magnitude of tiger killing in India is much more than reflected in the government's official records.

The government has claimed that around 80 tigers were killed in India including for poaching in 2012 whereas the seizures of tiger body parts in the year was much higher.

The biggest hauls of recent times came on January 12 when on 12 Nepal police seized five tiger skins and about 114 kilograms of tiger bones in bags in Nawakot district very close to Tibet border. The body parts were to be smuggled into Tiger in a van for the underground Chinese big cat medicine industry and two persons were arrested in this connection. The tiger skins and plastic bags containing bones were hidden under rice sacks in the van. 

A day earlier, in Gorkha district about 160 km west from capital city of Kathmandu, Nepal police arrested some Tibetans with two tiger skins and 53 kilograms of tiger bones. They were arrested while they were trying to smuggle the tiger parts to Tibet, China, officials said.

On January 27, the Nepalese authorities seized three leopard skins in Kanchanpur district of Nepal, which is very close to a home of tigers in India, Uttarakhand. Tigers in Corbett National Park in the state had been under stress for some time because of increasing poaching threat in the tiger reserve having highest tiger density in the country.

Anil Baluni, former vice-chairperson of Uttarakhand Forest Advisory body, said the tiger syndicates were operating in Nepal and the Indian government has not effectively taken the issue with the Nepalese government to crush these organised groups in the area of wildlife crime. "There is a sense that smuggling of tiger body parts into Nepal has become easy in the last few months," he said.

The seizures in Nepal had some sort of relation with highest deaths of tigers in India in a decade. As many as 89 tigers died in 2012 in 41 notified tiger homes in India with poaching incidents reported from reserves in Maharashtra to Kerala and Assam.

PARHELIES ET PARASELENIES CIVILISATIONNELS : RUSSIE, ASIE CENTRALE.

Cet article fait suite à "Sous la forêt, un royaume" du 12 juin 2012.

PHASE TRANSITOIRE ENTRE XXème et XXIIème siècles :  LE TIGRE COMME ICÔNE AXIALE PROTECTRICE LORS D'UNE ETAPE DELICATE DE MUTATION IDEOLOGIQUE.

REPTATION / PEREGRINATION DE LA RUS'. DANS LES PAS DU TIGRE EURO - SIBERIEN. L'histoire de la Russie s'architecture à partir de la confrontation catalytique d'entités politico - géographiques, les apanages, à la racine de laquelle on retrouve l'éternelle dialectique sédentaire / nomade // domestique / sauvage. Cette dialectique se retrouve peu ou prou dans toutes les sociétés officiellement sédentaires, au sein même des représentations des différentes classes sociales. Kiev (et son Simargl auxiliaire) triomphe de Tchernigov (et de son tigre partenaire) au VIIIème siècle.

Vladimir l'emporte sur Kiev au XIème siècle, et célèbre sa victoire à travers l'anneau d'or. A l'abri de la Pax Mongolica ( à partir du XIIIème siècle), Moscou prend son essor, puis, beaucoup plus tard, l'emporte à la fois sur Tver et Novgorod (vécu comme un succès de politique étrangère dans le second cas, eu égard aux liens entre Novgorod et la ligue Hanséatique), et bâtit l'église Basile le Bienheureux... A cette époque, la Moscovie est confrontée au plus vaste complexe étatique européen de l'Histoire avant l'Union Européenne : le Royaume des deux Nations, réalisé par l'Union de Lublin entre Pologne et Lituanie en 1569 : d'une superficie d'environ 900 000km2, il englobe la totalité des territoires de l'ancienne Rus' de Kiev. Au début du 17ème siècle, il menacera l'existence même de la Moscovie (en 1610, celle - ci aura un tsar polonais) comme avaient failli le faire les chevaliers teutoniques au XIIIème siècle, après avoir annihilé les slaves occidentaux au XIIème... De facto, il s'agit encore de l'opposition entre deux apanages, de très vastes dimensions. Le basculement du Monde vers l'Europe occidentale ramène le pôle directeur russe à l'ouest, sur le golfe de Finlande, avec St Petersbourg. Dans le même temps, l'Empire étend progressivement son contrôle politique sur d'immenses territoires orientaux, à une échelle holarctique (le continent américain est également concerné). Aujourd'hui, avec le basculement du Monde vers le Pacifique, les autorités russes considèrent ce qui fut "l'extrême - orient russe" (de la République de Sakha au Nord à la Province Maritime du Primorye au Sud) à la fois comme un centre géopolitique et une vitrine nationale. C'est à Vladivostok que s'est tenue l'an dernier la réunion de l'APEC, le Primorye possède le plus grand et le plus complexe aquarium au Monde, et une base spatiale va être construite dans la région. Cette modernité, qui mettait en péril le tigre de Sibérie et son environnement au siècle dernier, le promeut désormais, ayant changé de visage et d'orientation.

CONTROVERSE DE SAMARKAND ET REGULATEUR EURASISTE. DANS LES TRACES DU TIGRE CASPIEN. Les mutations centre asiatiques depuis la fin de l'Union Soviétique tendent, pour l'heure, à une forte opposition tadjiko / ouzbèke avec le Kazakhstan et la Russie comme agents potentiels d'apaisement (de même, dans le Caucase méridional, la haine des Arméniens tend désormais, cette année, à faire office d'idéologie officielle en Azebaïdjan persophone). La question est culturelle au sens le plus profond du terme. Il s'agit de la revendication de l'héritage Timuride, et même Sogdien. Le Registan de Samarkand constitue, encore aujourd'hui, le plus vaste complexe religieux au Monde En 1924, les Tadjiks ont perdu le contrôle de Samarkand et Boukhara au profit des ouzbeks. Aujourd'hui encore, la communauté tadjik est majoritaire dans ces deux cités. Les fondateurs Sogdiens de Marakanda (l'ancêtre de Samarkand) venaient de Douchanbé à la poursuite d'une panthère... On trouve là encore, de façon explicite et radicalisée, l'opposition entre "sédentaires" et "nomades" (dans les représentations beaucoup plus que dans la réalité). A la recherche d'une identité nationale nettement marquée, les tadjiks marquent ostensiblement leur différence culturelle (seuls persophones parmi les républiques d'Asie centrale de la CEI, ils revendiquent l'héritage zoroastrien) et raciale (reprenant des thèses de l'époque soviétique, ils revendiquent leur Aryanité et Indo Européanité face aux "nomades turciques" (populations d'origine altaïque : dans les faits, kazakhs et kyrgyzs sont bien plus nomades que tadjiks et ouzbeks...). Voir pour le détail Marlène Laruelle. 2006. Des Sciences humaines fave au Pouvoir Politique. Le mythe aryen comme idéologie de la Nation au Tadjikistan. Pp 369 - 396, dans "Anthropologie et Histoire face aux légitimations politiques, vol. 104 / 105. Cette résurgence idéologique est comme un soleil fantôme du Parhélie du Voyage d'Hiver de Schubert,  avec une conception du tigre de Chir Dor (au sein du Registan) semblable à  celle de Kiev vis à vis du Simargl il y a 13 siècles. Or, si le félin figure l'étudiant avide d'apprendre (voir "Substantiation" du 14 février), il est aussi perçu, et avant tout, de l'Asie centrale sensu lato (jusquà la Chine centrale), comme le pâtre sanglant des herbivores, un nomade guerrier anhistorique, qui conduit son troupeau à travers les temps. L'Eurasisme, influent en Russie et plus encore au Kazakstan, qui en a fait son idéolodie officielle, est, a contrario, non racial et non religieux, et prône l'harmonie entre communautés au sein d'un territoire de vaste dimension et géopolitiquement central entre finistère extrême occidental de l'Eurasie d'une part, et monde américain de l'autre. La modernité révolutionnaire qui a détruit le tigre de la Caspienne et un tiers de la population kazakhe dans la première moitié du siècle dernier prend désormais un chemin différent. Au Kazakstan, les premières familles de tigres arriveront l'an prochain dans les roselières du lac Balkash, pionniers d'une réinstallation ultérieure à une échelle plus vaste (plusieurs centaines d'individus dans les décennies à venir).

Aube présente d'un nouveau Printemps, préfiguration d'une Aurore historiquement proche, et d'un Zénith plus lointain...

LA BICHE BLANCHE JUSQU'A LA MOËLLE.

Au Sagre Elfe*, Belette des mers,

Et à la Montagne de Jade** perlée,

Au vison feu et au Tigre rouge, flammes nivales,

Au Grand Chemin vivant de fleurs des Sarakayu,

A la Mandchourite et l'Oenigmatite,

Au Gai Savoir*** Etre et Renaître

Dont la brûlante Lumière irradie à Jamais.

* Le plus petit requin connu : il tient dans la paume de la main.

** Le requin baleine, ainsi dénommé à Taï Wan.

*** Le tigre poursuivant la biche blanche sur la Madrasah Chir - Dor du Reghistan de Samarkand figure l'étudiant assoiffé de connaissance. Comme l'était déjà, 500 ans plus tôt et sous d'autres cieux, Héloïse d'Argenteuil. Réputée, aussi, pour sa voix d'or et son sens musical. Quand les tigres étaient en Europe, sous toutes acceptions.

Tigre et biche. Chir Dor, érection 1619 - 1636.

Eugène Delacroix. Femme indienne déchirée par les tigres.

PUISSANCE SEREINE INCONTESTABLE.