Three suspected poachers with tiger skins, bones arrested in Assam
1 year, 7 months ago

Three suspected poachers with tiger skins, bones arrested in Assam

Hindustan Times  

Three suspected poachers were arrested in Assam’s Barpeta along with tiger skin and bones worth ₹20 lakhs seized from them, forest officials said on Sunday. According to the officials, the suspected poachers must have killed a tiger in Manas Tiger Reserve a few days ago. Giving details of the incident, Manas Tiger Reserve officials told the media on Sunday that they received information about the alleged killing of a tiger in the reserve on Saturday and swung into action. There are 121 tigers in Kaziranga, 48 in Manas, 28 in Orang and three in Nameri tiger reserves at present, according to the state government data.

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Man dies in suspected tiger attack in Assam's Kaliabor
1 day, 17 hours ago

Man dies in suspected tiger attack in Assam's Kaliabor

New Indian Express  

GUWAHATI: A 60-year-old man lost his life in a suspected tiger attack in Kaliabor area of Assam. We found the body parts at the Kamakhya Reserve Forest,” the official added. The Kamakhya Reserve Forest is adjacent to the Kaziranga National Park & Tiger Reserve. He said this was the second tiger attack in the area in recent times.

3 villagers arrested in MP’s Narmadapuram district for killing tiger
1 week ago

3 villagers arrested in MP’s Narmadapuram district for killing tiger

Hindustan Times  

BHOPAL: Three men have been arrested in Madhya Pradesh’s Narmadapuram district in connection with the recent death of a tiger, state forest department officials said on Monday. The three residents of Banspani village have allegedly told the police that they had laid a trap for wild boars but the tiger walked into it about a week ago, killing it by …

Forest officials arrested three poachers in Odisha
2 weeks, 3 days ago

Forest officials arrested three poachers in Odisha

New Indian Express  

BARIPADA: Forest officials arrested three poachers and seized around five country-made guns along with other explosives from their possession on Wednesday night. The accused were identified as Karan Marandi, Budhurai Soren and Kandra Hansdah of Dumasahi village within Bangiriposi police limits. Deputy director of Similipal Tiger Reserve Samrat Gowda said basing on real-time AI camera alert, forest officials came to …

Tiger Tracking Intensified in Komaram Bheem Asifabad District
3 weeks ago

Tiger Tracking Intensified in Komaram Bheem Asifabad District

Deccan Chronicle  

Adilabad: The forest staff intensified the tracking of the tiger, suspected of killing a woman and injuring a man in two successive days last week, through 40 camera traps, two drones and nearly 100 field staff along Telangana’s border with Maharashtra in the Kagaznagar forest division in Komaram Bheem Asifabad district on Sunday. Speaking to media personnel, Asifabad district forest …

With winter come tiger conflicts, deaths in Asifabad
3 weeks, 2 days ago

With winter come tiger conflicts, deaths in Asifabad

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Come November and people in villages along the forest patches in KB Asifabad district not only start shivering with the winter cold that dips into the single digits, but also with fear as tigers from Maharashtra begin migrating into Telangana in search of a new home in the erstwhile Adilabad district area. “Tigers have taken to using this post …

Row erupts after tiger mauls 21-year-old tribal woman to death
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Row erupts after tiger mauls 21-year-old tribal woman to death

Hindustan Times  

A 21-year-old tribal woman was mauled to death by a tiger while she was working in cotton fields in Telangana’s Komaram Bheem Asifabad district on Friday morning, officials said. About 10 days ago, the forest department authorities identified the movement of a male tiger Johnny, which is believed to have travelled for 300 km from Tipeshwar Wildlife Sanctury in Maharashtra’s …

How many tigers died due to unnatural causes, including poaching in last four years? Govt replies
4 weeks ago

How many tigers died due to unnatural causes, including poaching in last four years? Govt replies

India TV News  

Kirti Vardhan Singh, Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, while responding to a query in the Lok Sabha, said seventy-one tigers died due to unnatural causes, including poaching and seizures, since 2021. Madhya Pradesh reports highest number of deaths of tigers Madhya Pradesh reported the highest number of deaths at 20, followed by Maharashtra and Karnataka since …

Two held for poaching leopard, eating its meat in Odisha
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1 month ago

Two held for poaching leopard, eating its meat in Odisha

New Indian Express  

NUAPADA: Forest officials on Monday arrested two persons for their involvement in poaching a leopard in Nuapada. The accused, Pustam Chinda and Hrusikesh Chinda of Deodhara within Komna police limits, reportedly cooked and consumed the leopard meat after poaching the big cat. Forest department sources said the accused and their accomplices had laid a trap to hunt wild boars near …

Dead Tiger: Chhattisgarh High Court Registers Suo-Moto Case Over Suspected Poaching In Guru Ghasidad National Park, Seeks Status Report From State
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1 month, 1 week ago

Dead Tiger: Chhattisgarh High Court Registers Suo-Moto Case Over Suspected Poaching In Guru Ghasidad National Park, Seeks Status Report From State

Live Law  

The Chhattisgarh High Court has registered a Suo-moto case based on a newspaper article revealing the death of a tiger suspected to have been killed by poaching. The article reported the discovery of a dead tiger in the unreserved Guru Ghasidas National Park, raising concerns about poaching. The bench comprising Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Amitendra Kishore Prasad directed …

Tiger found dead in suspected poaching, third since 2022 in Chhattisgarh
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Tiger found dead in suspected poaching, third since 2022 in Chhattisgarh

New Indian Express  

RAIPUR: The death of a male tiger under mysterious circumstances at Baikunthpur forest adjoining the Guru Ghasidas National Park, about 350 km north of Raipur, has bewildered the Chhattisgarh State Forest Department. This is the third tiger death in the state since 2022 and the second suspected poaching reported this year after a tiger was killed in January in the …

Assam government urges Orang National Park authorities to trace, transfer killer tiger to zoo
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Assam government urges Orang National Park authorities to trace, transfer killer tiger to zoo

The Hindu  

GUWAHATI The Assam government has instructed the authorities of a national park to catch the tiger that killed an armed home guard on August 28 and transfer it to the zoo. “We have issued an order to trace and transfer the tiger to a zoo, if necessary,” Assam’s Forest and Environment Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary said after Asom Gana Parishad …

Tiger kills home guard in Assam national park
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Tiger kills home guard in Assam national park

The Hindu  

GUWAHATI A tiger killed an armed home guard deployed in the Orang National Park and Tiger Reserve on Wednesday night, Assam Forest Department officials said. Dhanmoni Deka, the home guard, and casual worker Md Sahajul Haque were patrolling the Bilpar camp area of the tiger reserve in the evening when the tiger pounced on the former. The home guard’s shriek …

One more held for leopard poaching in Rairakhol forest, Odisha
3 months, 3 weeks ago

One more held for leopard poaching in Rairakhol forest, Odisha

New Indian Express  

SAMBALPUR: Forest officials on Wednesday arrested one more person for allegedly poaching a leopard, the skin of which was recovered from Hiraloi village near Landakot reserve forest under Rairakhol division. Official sources said the manner in which the leopard was skinned suggests that the poachers are professional and involved in illegal wildlife trade since a long time. Efforts are underway …

Tiger kills armed home guard in Assam’s Orang National Park
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Tiger kills armed home guard in Assam’s Orang National Park

New Indian Express  

GUWAHATI: A full-grown tiger killed an armed home guard in Assam’s Orang National Park and Tiger Reserve on Wednesday night. The incident occurred when the deceased, Dhanmoni Deka, and casual worker Md Sahajul Haque were patrolling an area as part of their regular drill. He added that when the rifle fell from Deka’s hand, he picked it up and fired …

Five poachers caught on camera in STR, arrested with guns
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Five poachers caught on camera in STR, arrested with guns

New Indian Express  

BARIPADA: Forest officials of Pithabata South Wildlife range under Similipal Tiger Reserve arrested five suspected poachers and seized four guns from their possession on Wednesday. The accused are Karunakar Mallick, Kartika Bhakta, Bhola Bhakta, Gunu Bhakta and Rabi Bhakta, all residents of Besarpani village within Baripada Sadar police limits. Deputy director of STR South Wildlife Division Samrat Gowda said recently, …

Assam: Elephant carcass found in Kaziranga; officials suspect tiger attack
4 months ago

Assam: Elephant carcass found in Kaziranga; officials suspect tiger attack

Hindustan Times  

Silchar: The forest guards in Assam’s Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve on Thursday said they found the carcass of an adult elephant, suspecting it was killed by tigers. Officials said that after recovering the carcass, they buried it in the forest, and some locals joined in to perform the religious rituals. A large part of our forests was encroached …

Forest officers apprehend two tribals for attempting to sell tiger teeth, claws
5 months, 1 week ago

Forest officers apprehend two tribals for attempting to sell tiger teeth, claws

New Indian Express  

NILGIRIS: Officials of the Nilgiris forest division apprehended two tribal persons for attempting to sell tiger claws and teeth. Upon initial inquiry, the accused confessed they lifted the parts from a decomposed tiger carcass lying near a stream in Mulligoor reserve forest two months ago. On Friday, forest officials visited the spot and conducted a postmortem examination of the carcass …

Tiger terrorising Wayanad residents, trapped in cage
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Tiger terrorising Wayanad residents, trapped in cage

New Indian Express  

KALPETTA: The tiger that landed in the village at Kenichira in Poothadi Panchayat, Wayanad, was trapped in the cage set up by the forest department late on Sunday. Following the repeated tiger attacks and the presence of a stray tiger in Manthadam, Kenichira in Wayanad, the Chief Wildlife Warden issued the order to tranquilise and capture the problematic tiger on …

2 suspected poachers shot dead in Assam’s Laokhowa Sanctuary: Forest officials
6 months ago

2 suspected poachers shot dead in Assam’s Laokhowa Sanctuary: Forest officials

Hindustan Times  

Two suspected poachers were shot dead by forest guards in Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam’s Nagaon district during the wee hours of Saturday, officials said. According to Jayanta Deka, divisional forest officer, Nagaon, the incident happened between 1am and 1.30am when a team of 15 poachers entered the Charaihagi forest camp area in Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary. After the firing, the …

48-yr-old woman killed by tiger in Mysuru distt
6 months, 3 weeks ago

48-yr-old woman killed by tiger in Mysuru distt

Hindustan Times  

A tiger mauled a 48-year-old woman from Moorband village in Mysuru district to death, forest officials said. Forest officials said the woman was attacked by a tiger when she was grazing goats near the hill on Saturday evening. “The incident occurred around 5-6 pm,” Bandipura tiger reserve project director and conservator of forests S Prabhakaran told HT. “No tiger attacks …

Karnataka: Tiger mauls woman to death in HD Kote
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Karnataka: Tiger mauls woman to death in HD Kote

New Indian Express  

MYSURU: A 48-year-old woman was allegedly mauled to death by a tiger in HD Kote Taluk on Saturday night. Foresters said that the incident took place at Moorband Betta in HD Kote Taluk. Hediyala ACF G Ravindra said, “To monitor the movement of the tiger, around 40 camera traps have been installed,” he said. Bandipur Tiger Reserve Field Director S …

K'taka poacher arrested for killing 18-year-old tusker in TN's Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve
7 months ago

K'taka poacher arrested for killing 18-year-old tusker in TN's Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve

New Indian Express  

ERODE: The mastermind behind a poaching gang was arrested from Karnataka by the Tamil Nadu forest department on Sunday in connection with the killing of an 18-year-old male elephant and poaching of its tusks at Thalavadi in Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve of Erode district. As per sources, on April 22, frontline staff of the department while conducting their regular patrol in …

Man-eater tiger that killed 6 persons in Chandrapur forest circle captured after 2-month operation
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Man-eater tiger that killed 6 persons in Chandrapur forest circle captured after 2-month operation

Deccan Chronicle  

Chandrapur: A nine-year-old tiger that had killed six persons in Chandrapur district of Maharashtra in the last two months has been caged, marking the successful culmination of a two-month-long operation to capture the elusive big cat on the prowl which had struck terror in villages. The tiger had killed four persons in the Central Chanda division and two others in …

Elephant found dead, with tusks missing, in T.N.’s Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Elephant found dead, with tusks missing, in T.N.’s Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve

The Hindu  

A wild elephant, aged between 18 and 20 years, was found dead with its tusks missing at the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve in Talavadi Hills, Erode district, on April 22. During a routine patrol, a Forest Department team found the fully decomposed carcass in a forest near Gumtapuram village in the Talavadi Forest Range of Hasanur Division, and alerted senior officials. …

41-year-old labourer from Assam killed by tiger in Kodagu district
8 months ago

41-year-old labourer from Assam killed by tiger in Kodagu district

Hindustan Times  

A 41-year-old labourer from Assam was killed by a tiger on Thursday in Nittur in Kodagu district, according to the officials. After the incident, villagers expressed outrage against forest department officials for failing to take action to prevent wild elephant and tiger attacks in the region. They said, the incident happened when the deceased, identified as Mansoor, was grazing cattle …

Two poachers arrested, weapons seized in Karnataka
8 months, 1 week ago

Two poachers arrested, weapons seized in Karnataka

Hindustan Times  

Two poachers were arrested in Nagarhole area of Karnataka even as three others managed to escape from the spot, said forest department officials familiar with the development on Friday. According to the wildlife sanctuary forest officials, the incident took place on Wednesday night in the Kachuvinahalli reserve forest area under the jurisdiction of the Huasur wildlife division According to the …

Leopard found dead near Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Leopard found dead near Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve

The Hindu  

A male leopard, aged five to six years, was found dead near the Talavadi Forest Range in the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve in Erode district, on Sunday, March 31, 2024. Forest Department staff said they received information that a carcass was found on a vacant plot of patta land located outside Gumatapuram village, about 500 metres away from the Biligiri Ranganathaswamy …

Tiger found dead in Valmiki Reserve in Bihar’s West Champaran district
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Tiger found dead in Valmiki Reserve in Bihar’s West Champaran district

Hindustan Times  

The forest officials in Bihar’s West Champaran found a tiger lying dead in the forest of Valmiki Tiger Reserve on Sunday evening in yet another incident of territorial fight rampant in the forest. The carcass of the big cat was recovered from compartment number 55 of Maguraha forest range of Valmiki Tiger Reserve, located in West Champaran district, officials said. …

Two poachers arrested for opening fire at Odisha sanctuary staff: Police
9 months ago

Two poachers arrested for opening fire at Odisha sanctuary staff: Police

Hindustan Times  

Two poachers were arrested for allegedly firing at two members of the Kuldiha sanctuary in Odisha’s Balasore district on Monday night, officials said. Officials of the state forest department said while patrolling in the sanctuary last night, the forest staff saw two poachers who then fired from their country made guns which hit two volunteers of Sabuja Vahini accompanying the …

3 suspected poachers held in Assam with firearms, animal body parts: Officials
9 months, 2 weeks ago

3 suspected poachers held in Assam with firearms, animal body parts: Officials

Hindustan Times  

Silchar: The Assam Police in a joint operation with the forest department on Saturday arrested three suspected poachers and recovered a large amount of animal body parts and firearms from Chirang district, officials said. “They killed deers and some other wild creatures and were heading towards an illegal market to sell them,” officials of Panbari forest range said. Chirang district …

Suspected poacher held in Assam with 3.7kg elephant tusk: Officials
10 months ago

Suspected poacher held in Assam with 3.7kg elephant tusk: Officials

Hindustan Times  

Silchar: The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau in a joint operation with the Assam Police on Friday night arrested a suspected poacher from the Tamulpur district with elephant tusks weighing 3.731kg, officials said. WCC officials said that they informed the local police after getting specific information about the suspected poacher who was in the Pub-Kachukata locality to sell the item. A …

Tiger body parts recovered in Karnataka district, two held: Officials
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Tiger body parts recovered in Karnataka district, two held: Officials

Hindustan Times  

Two people have been arrested and tiger claws and teeth have been recovered from their possession in Chikkamagaluru district of Karnataka, forest officers said on Wednesday, adding that the accused have been booked under The Wild Life Act. Forest officials recovered four tiger claws, two teeth, and a skull from two biike-borne people in Chikkamagaluru district of Karnataka. ) According …

3 killed in tiger attack in Gadchiroli in last two weeks: Officials
11 months ago

3 killed in tiger attack in Gadchiroli in last two weeks: Officials

Hindustan Times  

Nagpur: In yet another incident of a tiger attack in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district, a villager was killed in a forest area near Lohara, under the Markanda-Kansoba forest range, officials aware of the matter said. 1 person was killed on Saturday in tiger attack near Lohara in Gadchiroli The incident took place on Saturday morning. Amid growing concerns about the escalating …

K12, related to two poisoned tigers, yet to be traced
11 months ago

K12, related to two poisoned tigers, yet to be traced

Deccan Chronicle  

Adilabad: Amid the suspension of forest department officials and increased official presence in forests following incidents of tiger deaths, a female tiger named K12 — that was part of the family of a male and a cub who died recently due to alleged poisoning of cattle kill — is yet to be tracked. K12, who was moving in the forests …

Tiger Found Dead in MP's Bandhavgarh Reserve, Second Big Cat Death in a Week
11 months ago

Tiger Found Dead in MP's Bandhavgarh Reserve, Second Big Cat Death in a Week

News 18  

A young tiger was found dead in the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh’s Umaria district, with officials suspecting it was killed by an adult tiger. The carcass of the sub-adult tiger, aged between 12 months and 18 months, was spotted in a trench in Dhamokhar range of the BTR on Tuesday, forest ranger Vijay Shankar Shrivastava said on Wednesday. …

Asifabad Tiger Deaths, 2 Forest Officials Suspended
11 months ago

Asifabad Tiger Deaths, 2 Forest Officials Suspended

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Two forest department officials have been suspended for ‘negligence’ in connection with the death of two tigers in the KB Asifabad district earlier this month. Asked if the suspensions were because the two officials were found in some way responsible for two incidents, senior department officials said the trigger was the death of the two tigers and the issue …

Second Tiger Death in Two Days Sends Officials Scurrying to Asifabad
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Second Tiger Death in Two Days Sends Officials Scurrying to Asifabad

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad/Adilabad: Tigers in the corridor forests of Komaram Bheem Asifabad district are dying one by one, with one more tiger death reported on Monday, coming on the heels of the discovery of a dead sub-adult tigress two days ago. Although the Telangana forest department officials were tight-lipped about the second tiger death within a week from the same patch of …

Carcass of 2 tigers found in south Karnataka, poisoning suspected
1 year ago

Carcass of 2 tigers found in south Karnataka, poisoning suspected

The Hindu  

The carcasses of a tiger and its cub were found in a field in Gundlupet taluk of Chamarajanagar district in Karnataka in a partially decomposed condition. There is talk in conservation circles that the two tigers may have been poisoned as their carcasses were found in the same place. While the traditional sampling methods can detect traces of poison for …

Odisha: Fear of Royal Bengal Tiger haunts again as it kills two heads of cattle
1 year ago

Odisha: Fear of Royal Bengal Tiger haunts again as it kills two heads of cattle

Deccan Chronicle  

Bhubaneswar: People living in Odisha’s Gajapati and Rayagada districts are in tense now as a Royal Bengal Tiger which had appeared twice in the region a few days ago and killed a cow, allegedly killed two cattle heads late on Saturday night. Reports said the tiger entered the orchard of Timiti Bhuyan, a resident of Uama village under R Udaygiri …

Tiger cub dies after being hit by train in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur
1 year ago

Tiger cub dies after being hit by train in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur

Hindustan Times  

A four-month-old female tiger cub was killed after being hit by a SE-Central Railway train at Kitali Mendha in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur district on Monday, officials said. Since January this year, Maharashtra has recorded nearly 35 tiger deaths The incident reportedly took place early morning as the train was en route from Chandrapur to Gondia. Earlier, in a similar incident, a …

Elusive tiger kills 42-year-old man in Karnataka’s Chamarajanagara district
1 year, 1 month ago

Elusive tiger kills 42-year-old man in Karnataka’s Chamarajanagara district

Hindustan Times  

42-year-old farmer has been killed by a tiger while working in his fields in the Bandipur Tiger Reserve area of Chamarajanagara district, forest officials familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, adding that they have intensified the search operation for the tiger who earlier attacked another villager. According to forest officials, the incident occurred at the Moleyur range forest area …

Tamil Nadu: Nilgiris tigers died due to natural causes, says NTCA report
1 year, 2 months ago

Tamil Nadu: Nilgiris tigers died due to natural causes, says NTCA report

Deccan Chronicle  

Chennai: There was nothing alarming about the recent death of tigers – 10 of them had died between August 16 and September 19 – in the Nilgiris if one were to take into account the current population growth and the dispersal dynamics in the landscape, the National Tiger Conservation Authority said in its report. The report released on Friday said …

No evidence to link tiger deaths in the Nilgiris to organised poaching: Chief Wildlife Warden
1 year, 2 months ago

No evidence to link tiger deaths in the Nilgiris to organised poaching: Chief Wildlife Warden

The Hindu  

The recent death of tigers in the Nilgiris could not have been due to organised poaching, said Chief Wildlife Warden Srinivas R. Reddy on Monday, October 2, 2023. However, Mr. Reddy said no evidence was found to link some of the deaths to poaching, but the Forest Department was actively pursuing the cases. Referring to the death of two tigers …

Team from National Tiger Conservation Authority visits the Nilgiris to investigate tiger deaths
1 year, 2 months ago

Team from National Tiger Conservation Authority visits the Nilgiris to investigate tiger deaths

The Hindu  

A team of officials from the National Tiger Conservation Authority and Wildlife Crime Control Bureau along with State Forest Department officials visited two of the sites in the Nilgiris where tigers, both adults and cubs, were found dead since August 16. Murali, Inspector General of Forests, NTCA, Bangalore, Kirupa Shankar, Deputy Director of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, Chennai, and …

Madhya Pradesh: Another tiger dies in Bandhavgarh reserve, second death in a week
1 year, 3 months ago

Madhya Pradesh: Another tiger dies in Bandhavgarh reserve, second death in a week

India TV News  

Madhya Pradesh: The carcass of a male tiger was found in Tala beat of Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve by a patrolling team on Wednesday. Lakhan Lal Uike, chief conservator of forest and in-charge field director of the reserve informed today that the carcass of the tiger, aged around 5-7 years, had teeth marks on the body. Cause of death Prima facie …

Man arrested for death of tiger at Emerald in the Nilgiris
1 year, 3 months ago

Man arrested for death of tiger at Emerald in the Nilgiris

The Hindu  

The Forest Department on Monday arrested a man in connection with the death of a tiger at Emerald in the Nilgiris recently. The officials said that two tigers, aged three and eight, were found dead in a water body in Emerald on Saturday. The department collected samples from the carcasses of the two tigers and the cow and sent it …

Maharashtra records 33 tiger deaths this year
1 year, 3 months ago

Maharashtra records 33 tiger deaths this year

Hindustan Times  

Maharashtra has recorded 33 tiger deaths since January this year, which is the highest number in the recent past, according to the data provided by the state wildlife headquarters in Nagpur. All the tiger deaths in Maharashtra in the last three years were reported from the Vidarbha region, which has five of the state’s six tiger reserves. All the tiger …

‘Circumstantial evidence’ of poisoning found in tiger deaths in the Nilgiris
1 year, 3 months ago

‘Circumstantial evidence’ of poisoning found in tiger deaths in the Nilgiris

The Hindu  

The Forest Department has found “circumstantial evidence” indicating that at least one of the two tigers that were found dead on Saturday could have been poisoned, officials said. However, he said, the Department staff, when perambulating the area, discovered the decomposed carcass of a cattle close to where the tiger carcasses were found. D. Venkatesh, Conservator of Forests, said external …

Tiger cub rescued in Ballarpur forest range this week dies during treatment: Official
1 year, 3 months ago

Tiger cub rescued in Ballarpur forest range this week dies during treatment: Official

Hindustan Times  

NAGPUR: A female tiger cub being treated at Chandrapur’s Wildlife Transit Treatment Centre after being rescued from the Ballarpur forest range of Chandrapur died on Saturday morning. A Sumatran tiger cub cleans one of its parents during the annual weigh-in to document the health and condition of animals The cub hadn’t been eating and was intravenously administered saline, said Jitendra …

Two tigresses found dead in the Nilgiris
1 year, 3 months ago

Two tigresses found dead in the Nilgiris

The Hindu  

Two tigresses were found dead in close proximity to each other in a water body in Nehru Nagar at Emerald in Kundha on Saturday. “Our investigations into the deaths of the two tigresses have already begun, though the postmortem would only be conducted on Sunday,” said Mr. Gowtham. The District Forest Officer said the cause of death could be established …

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