Sariska to get 3 more tigresses Rajender Sharma, TNN

ALWAR: The Sariska tiger reserve will soon host atleast three more tigeress from Ranthambore. Currently, the reserve has two tigers and three tigeress.

This was stated by Union forest minister Jairam Ramesh during his visit to the reserve. The minister spotted a tiger at the reserve for the first time in his life. "I have been visiting reserves in the country since 1984 but this is for the first time that I have spotted a tiger," the minister said.

Sources revealed that the minister spotted the tiger ST-6. This is the same tiger that had attacked ranger Daulat Singh Shaktawat and had fled to Bharatpur from where it was eventually brought to Sariska.

"In the next two or three months, we will be shifting three more females from Ranthambore," he said. However, Ramesh made it clear that the next male to set foot in the reserve would be from Madhya Pradesh. The minister was worried as no cubs were being born in Sariska for the past four years since the first tiger was relocated.

"It is just not Sariska but there are 13 tigresses out of a total 20 females in Ranthambore which, too, have not littered since the past five to six years. We are worried and have sent scat samples of these tigresses and from some in Sariska to Hyderabad for a hormonal test," he said. .

The ministry has recently sanctioned Rs 2 crore for the purchase of ten 35-seater buses for ferrying passengers from the gates of the sanctuary to Pandupole. A research centre, Kailash Sankhla research centre, would also be set up. The Centre will give various information on wildlife and will serve as a museum too.

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Eight sentenced to jail for tiger poaching-PTI

Alwar (Rajasthan), Jun 17 (PTI) A local court has awarded seven poachers seven years of imprisonment and another poacher five years in jail for killing a tiger in Sariska reserve in 2002.Additional chief judicial magistrate Himankani Gaud sentenced Zahuru, Ramjan, Hazari, Darra, Fazru, Umardin and Sukka to seven years in jail and Heera Lal was awarded five years of imprisonment.The magistrate also slapped a fine of Rs 1.5 lakh each on Zuhru and Ramjan, Rs 30,000 on Lal and Rs 85,000 on others.The hunters killed the tiger in Sariska and had sold its skin in 2002.
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