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Stripes clicked in Gujarat after 27 years!
(Read @Sanju's post for better details: LINK)

On Saturday, the picture landed on the mobile of principal chief conservator of forest (PCCF) Akshay Saxena who has ordered an intensive search operation to confirm the animal's presence.

• The teacher, Mahesh Mahera, who sighted the tiger crossing road into the wilderness of Boriya village in Mahisagar district, also captured the big cat on his mobile phone.
• The pictures, clicked from inside his car on February 6, went viral with the state forest department on Saturday setting up camera traps in the vicinity of Boriya village to get more evidence of the tiger’s presence.
  

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Almost a year after a tiger attacked a man near Dangs at Maharastra-Gujarat border & 27 years after tiger presence was recorded there in the state in 1992, one have reportedly been photographed in Gujarat while crossing a road through the wilderness near Boriya village in Lunawada taluka in Mahisagar district, adjoining Madhya Pradesh.

"While returning home from school in evening, I was shocked to see a tiger just 40 feet away from my car. As locals have been talking about tiger’s presence in the area, I immediately clicked its pictures from inside my vehicle," said Mahesh Mahera who teaches in Guliya primary school in the same area.
Mahera confessed to have shared the tiger’s pictures with his friends who alerted the forest officials, who are trying to check the authenticity of it & placed camera traps in the area.

"We are looking for scat (tiger feces), pug marks, big animals killed. Three camera traps have been mounted and more will be placed soon to capture visual evidence of tiger," said Saxena. The PCCF said if tiger’s presence is confirmed in Gujarat, the department will have to go back drawing board to redesign the wildlife conservation programme for Big Cats.

Last time, tiger had hit headlines in the state when direct sighting of tiger was reported a tiger in July 2018, about 150 km away in Tapi District, when it attacked a man trying to chase away curious onlookers.
Sporadic reports kept surfacing & locals have tried killing of  goats & an ox, but this is the first confirmation of tiger.

Source:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/artic...922539.cms
https://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/st...923476.cms Reply