New Delhi: It’s an incident which sent shock waves across India's best managed park. On March 7, two tiger cubs brutally killed and poisoned by local people in retaliation for killing their goats.
Deputy director, Ranthambore Shekhawat said, “We were very upset because the goats were killed, we took stock of situation and decided to take people in custody and we were fortunate the culprits were also caught.”
Reaching the tiger graveyards is not easy. The area is far from the tourist zone, deep in the ravines near a dry river bed.
The village of Tadla Khet where the killings were planned by the Gujjars has been deserted, except for Ram Khiladi, whose son is the main accused in the tiger killings and is now in custody
Ram Khiladi said, “People have run away for fear of forest department, because they are arresting everyone.
While swift action enabled the forest department to nab the culprits, experts say the problem runs deeper
“We should control their livestock, 15- 250 goats is a lot.. secondly the animals come for grazing and are killed, we should compensate fast... see for 2,000 goat we have lost 2 tigers,” says Tiger expert Dharmendr
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