Showing posts with label tigress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tigress. Show all posts
Saturday, November 7, 2009
More abandoned cubs found in Tadoba as forest workers take govt to court
Indicating loss of another tigress in Tadoba, four cubs were found abandoned by villagers a couple of days back. This is the 4such instance of a big cat going missing which in all likely hood has either been poached or poisoned. With Tadoba loosing tigers at a fast rate and the forest officials not being able to take effective steps to stem the killing the sanctuary is fast becoming favourite hunting ground for poachers. The reserves has also been in news recently for people in the area opposing mining activity and serious issues with relocation of villagers residing inside the park. A few months back the Maharashtra govt had transferred park officials across the state en masse without even appointing a replacement at Tadoba which came in only after a few months. One wonders whether the laxity has lead to this series of damaging losses. In a related development daily workers inside the park have filed a case in the Nagpur high court demanding details how the money received from Centre and NTCA has been spent by park administration. The case filed after the park ran out of money whic left many workers unpaid this despite the centre having released almost 11 Crs for TATR recently. The high court has ordered the state govt to file an affidavit on how the funds have been spent.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Faced with shrinking habitat tiger turning on each other
In another incident of its kind, a tigress's partially eaten body was found in Kanha national park according to a report on Indiatimes.com. This is the 7th tiger death in the park and some of them have been attributed to territorial fights amongst big cats. According to forest officials quoted in the report, a male tiger killed the sub adult female tiger possibly for encroaching into his territory. With forest areas shrinking at a rapid pace and tigers being fiercly territorial animals, incidents of the big cats killing each other are being reported at increased rate.
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