Tigers of Central India

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Umesh Krishna
TOCI all members appreciate the work of Kanha FD, in being fast in tracking the happenings due to which further damage has been avoided.
Poachers at it again-Bush meat pushes another Tiger death.
This is really unfortunate that despite outreach programs by Kanha Forest department the villagers are still engaging in poaching for bush meat and such incidents happen by accident.
A Tiger cub was found dead during an elephant patrol in the morning around 7.30 am on 11th March 2017 in Mawala, Beat of Mukki Range in Kanha. Strangely the mother tiger and the other cub were seen feeding on the body. It was almost eaten up and only head and part of legs were seen as remains.
Prima facie it looked like a case of killing by another adult tiger. Once the mother and other cub moved, the remains of the dead tiger cub were collected. One metallic wire snare was also found close to the dead animal. The spot is close to Mawala village and village boundary is hardly one km. Dog squad was called and the entire area was scanned. Several more snares were found on the village boundary. Further investigation led to the arrest of two villagers from Baiga Tola of this village.
The procedures were done as per the protocol of NTCA. The accused were produced before the court and they have been sent to jail.
Villagers being greedy of bush meat have been venturing into forest and have been lying wire/snare traps in which even tigers are becoming victims.
The forest department under the eminent leadership and guidance of Mr. Sanjay Shukla has been making its best efforts to engage the villagers in conservation work and enlighten them of the importance of wildlife.
However, there will be always be soime rotten individuals who venture into this, resulting in great damage to wildlife.
We appreciate the work of Kanha FD, in being fast in tracking the happenings due to which further damage has been avoided.
Rituraj Jaiswal Imroz Baig Santhosh Narayan Romel Kumar Jitender Govindani Ajeet Gurditta Vinit Arora Imran Khan Soma Pradhan Lisha Patel Sush Bhokarkar Ananya Dutta Panda and many more wildlifers appreciate and salute to FD Kanha.

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