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(06-07-2020, 02:49 PM)Ashutosh Wrote: The Kerala Forest Department just 3 weeks ago had hired 3 shooters to track down a tiger and shoot it down Avni tigress style. But, since the whole elephant incident, everything has gone quiet. They are in a damage repair mode.
That was in May. Wasn't that man-eater caught later on?
And the elephant incident is being blown out of proportion. It only made to newspaper because this victim was an elephant, a big animal, that too pregnant. This sort of bomb traps are common for pot-hunting. Pigs & minor wildlife die everyday. Very hard to check.
IMO only counter that can stop it is sniffer dogs (they can detect the powder pretty easily actually)... But as of now only tiger reserves have them, not minor forest ranges.