A dead cub has been found burnt after its paws were chopped off for some tantric ritual at the Pench Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh. It is found that the killing was done by forest caretakers along with a member of the village eco-development committee.
The news of the cub comes after a tiger was run over by a speeding vehicle in Bandhavgarh in the state. Some suspect the accidents to be a cover up for poaching. Madhya Pradesh whose name has been associated with such incidents is otherwise the ‘tiger state of India’ and maintains six tiger reserves, including Kanha, Bandhavgarh, Pench and Panna along with Satpura National Park and Sanjay Dubri Wildlife Sanctuary.
In the most shameful scenarios, the researchers, conservationists and by the Central Empowered Committee of the Supreme Court repeatedly warned about vanishing tigers at the Panna reserve but the officials did not do anything to protect the tigers and instead gave false census reports and faked pug marks. The reserve was finally declared tiger less.
In the Bandhavgarh incident, A tigress with her three young cubs were run over by the vehicle belonging to the sanctuary. The vehicle which ran over the tigress should have not been there in the first place because the movement of any vehicle is prohibited at night.
The state still has the highest number of tigers in the country but the lack of proper conservations efforts and indifference at the part of the authorities may cost it the title of the tiger state.
http://www.stockwatch.in/dead-cub-found-pench-tiger-reserve-28021
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