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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Another tiger dies in Kaziranga

The spate of killings continue unabated, after yesterday's report of a tiger found dead in Kanha, the 7th this year, another tiger was found dead in Kaziranga National park in assam. This is the 8th tiger death in Kaziranga this year and
forest officials suspect poisoning by villagers as the cause. The incident comes a couple of days after tiger cubs were found abandoned in Tadoba nAtional park indicating their mother had been killed by poachers.
With tigers deaths being reported from across the country on a regular basis and long term solutions slow to take root time is running out for the big beast.
The govt needs to involve local population in conservation and make them stake holders in protecting wildlife and forests, unless that is accomlished quickly any other efforts to preserve tigers will not prevent their extinction.

Poachers kill tiger, jumbo