Newly-introduced tigers leave reserve

Dec 19, 2012 - LALIT SHASTRI |

Age Correspondent

Bhopal

The wildlife managers responsible for the implementation of the ambitious tiger relocation plan, which was taken up in 2010 to repopulate the Panna Tiger Reserve after the entire population of Panna tigers had vanished in 2009, are spending sleepless nights as the semi-adult tigers born to the newly introduced big cats have started leaving the buffer zone and on a couple of occasions they have gone through the contiguous forest belt as far as Lalitpur in Uttar Pradesh.
Reliable sources in the wildlife wing of the state forest department told this paper on Wednesday that recently on two occasions team of foresters from Panna Tiger Reserve went long distance riding an elephant to keep track of a tiger that had crossed the park boundary and travelled as far as Lalitpur.
The Panna Tiger Reserve authorities are also facing the poaching menace. Last Saturday the park authorities rounded up some villagers belonging to the fasia caste from the Gumanganj area of Ken Gharial sanctuary and seized from their possession 232 crude bombs used for killing wild boars. Similarly a poacher was arrested with crude bombs from the Panna North division forest on December 4.
The authorities also discovered some Pardhi tribals possessing crude bombs were also arrested from the Gangau Sanctuary in the last week of November.
On a broader scale, as far as the issue of poaching is concerned, the problem is acute and this gets reflected by the fact that poachers have killed at least four tigers in different parts of Madhya Pradesh since June 2012 which is an alarming statistic.
While a tiger got electrocuted and killed by a trap laid by poachers in the Umaria forest division near Shahdol and very close to the buffer zone of Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve earlier this month, A five year old tiger that had been moving in the forest belt between Kathotia and Kerwan touching the southern tip of Bhopal was electrocuted and killed by poachers earlier this year in June.
Another tiger was electrocuted in Barhi forest of Katni district near Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in November.

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