Two more tigers killed in Madhya Pradesh

The Times of India , Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Correspondent : P Naveen
BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh lost two more tigers in the last 24 hours, taking toll to 24 since January 2015.

This time carcass of two big cats were found inside Kanha National Park, first of a tiger at Supkhar range on Sunday and second one was of a tigress at Mukkhi range on Monday.

Field director J S Chouhan said, "Tiger was 14-year-old and died of starvation. And tigress got killed in a war over territorial supremacy."

This unfortunate event, he said adding that the tigress was moving around with two cubs. "We would now be focusing on rescuing and safeguarding the cubs," he said.

Noteworthy that eleven of them got killed in the last four months; either due to poison and or deadly electric wire traps laid for wild boars and deer.

At least three were killed for sorcery where villagers were lured by cons on pretext of 'raining wealth' from the sky. Poachers had gone to the extent of extracting oil from fat of poached tiger.

Last week one of the two tiger cubs translocated to Kanha from Pench National Park had died of septicaemia.

Both were captured and shifted in a hurry after their mother and two siblings got killed in Pench consuming a poisoned kill.

RTI activist Ajay Dubey has once again demanded a CBI probe into each and every death. "All unnatural death of tigers should be probed by the federal agency so that guilty people can be brought to book. NTCA says that tiger deaths that are not natural should be treated as a case of poaching," he said.

After a century of decline, the most recent World Wildlife Fund (WWF) tiger data revealed existence of about 3,890 wild tigers in Asian region, compared to 3,200 in 2010. It includes India (2,226), Russia (433), Nepal (198) and Bhutan (103). Madhya Pradesh has a contribution of more than 300 tigers to this count.

 
SOURCE : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhopal/Two-more-tigers-killed-in-Madhya-Pradesh/articleshow/51884112.cms
 


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