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Tigers of Central India

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(11-21-2018, 02:16 AM)tigerluver Wrote: It's been a while since I checked in on these guys. Gabbar is looking like Wagdoh with those scars. On that note, how is Wagdoh doing?

Both were pushed out into the Buffer zone some time ago, I'd say it's been 1-2 years or so without a real photo of either but many rumblings of them being seen so both should still be alive and kicking some where.
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(11-14-2018, 04:42 PM)Rishi Wrote: Good news brother!

The 2-year-old tiger from Chandrapur Super Thermal Power Station (CSTPS) near Tadoba buffer has miraculously reached the periphery of Satpura Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh...
Chanda big cat close to Satpura Tiger Reserve

Colombus (Yeah i just named him).
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Travelling 420 kms in about 80-85 days, through fragmented forest patches in fairly densely populated human dominated landscape, he had just see a new record of longest journey made by any Indian tiger.
(Technically it may become 450km as he is still 30km-odd away from Satpura, but hasn't moved this week & is in a place with good prey-base.)
Another ultimate news about migrations and gene pool of tiger!
Scientists unravels the mystery of Lalgarh tiger, which had made the forests of Jhargram’s erstwhile
Maoist zone, West Midnapore and Bankura, its home for over two months this summer — had come from the forests of central India, an astonishing 900km away, and not
Odisha’s Simlipal as was earlier thought, suggests DNA analysis.
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The speculative journey of the big cat, a full-grown male, would make it one of the longest tiger migrations ever: over 1,000km, since it didn’t travel as the crow flies.

This has renewed hope about possible tiger-migration routes between central India and Bengal and underscores the need to protect forest corridors.
Read full:
https://m.timesofindia.com/city/kolkata/lalgarh-tiger-had-bandhavgarh-dna/articleshow/66743350.cms
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(11-22-2018, 10:56 AM)Suhail Wrote: Another ultimate news about migrations and gene pool of tiger!
Scientists unravels the mystery of Lalgarh tiger, which had made the forests of Jhargram’s erstwhile
Maoist zone, West Midnapore and Bankura, its home for over two months this summer — had come from the forests of central India, an astonishing 900km away, and not Odisha’s Simlipal as was earlier thought, suggests DNA analysis.

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The speculative journey of the big cat, a full-grown male, would make it one of the longest tiger migrations ever: over 1,000km, since it didn’t travel as the crow flies.

This has renewed hope about possible tiger-migration routes between central India and Bengal and underscores the need to protect forest corridors.
Read full:
https://m.timesofindia.com/city/kolkata/lalgarh-tiger-had-bandhavgarh-dna/articleshow/66743350.cms
(Long rant to follow. Took me months to gather everything)
Yes, reason the Lalgarh tiger made so much headlines was because how unexpectedly it surfaced, from Chhotanagpur Plateau, a part of Central India's former prime tiger landscape where tigers are now barely holding on. 

Some background first... During the "hunting era" this area was what the Kanha-Tadoba are today.
Also due to being in the limelight, the region's forests are populated by tribals who made their living off the hunting industry. After hunting was banned they took to poaching & by the '90s, most of wildlife population was decimated.

Then started the Maoist insurgency when most of this area fell under the Red corridor & almost went lawless. Right now most of it is still completely off the conservation grid & infrastructure haven't been properly rebuilt. The Palamau & Indravati tiger reserves haven't still been fully sanitised.

In Jharkhand, northern Odisha & Chhattisgarh, (15000 km² forest complex east of Sanjay-Dubri & Achanakmar tiger reserves) virtually nothing is known of those forests due to the complete absence of any formal wildlife research in this landscape for the last decade of unrest.

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(I've labeled the a Largarh town near which the tiger was lynched & marked the probable corridor with white.) 
Because of no presence of any big cats in the highly fragmented & human dominated forest cover, everybody was taken by surprise when a tiger was sighted here, later camera trapped.
Even the very existence of a viable tiger corridor upto West Bengal's Jangalmahal was not known, neither was a nearby tiger population other than Simlipal. 
But this male's features didn't match any known specimen of the database at Simlipal. So everyone wondered of its origin  (which unfortunately was only determined by genetic study after its demise).

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The tiger was very efficient at surviving near people. During his 2-3 months stay, killed very few cattle (despite near non-existent preybase) & attacked nobody.

But the fact that turned heads was his age. He was a past-prime male, aged 10-12 years, not an adventurous youngster looking for home. That meant two things...
  1. Either the male had been wandering around the forests of Chhotanagpur all his life.
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  2. And/or, there's one or more small unidentified tiger breeding populations hidden from us.
The fact that he carried Bandhavgarh-Sanjay genes are not in disagreement with that. Palamau is fairly well connected to the west & some of whatever few tigers remain in Palamau, are from there. 
Although in the map i marked the whole length as a corridor, there are 4 protected areas (varying quality of management) between them, where tiger estimations show sparse presence of tigers.

He need not have come all the way from MP, but somewhere from Saranda forests (marked in map), or kicked out of Palamau, or be a wanderer as well.

This is not the first time mystery tigers popped up in the region out of nowhere!
For example, in 2016 a tigress was sighted by tourists in the tiny Dalma Hills Wildlife Sanctuary, more then 50 years after being declared locally extinct. 
There's a footage:



As per reports from locals, she found herself a mate & had cubs. Then suddenly, signs suggested that the tigers had moved towards the huge Saranda landscape southwest of Dalma, where a tiger stumbled into a iron-ore mine in 2011.
Tigers were sighted in 2014-15 in the forests near of Ranchi city, north of Saranda.
A tiger was detected & poached in Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary of Odisha a last month.

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Another was sighted this week! The national census detected them in 3 new places of northern Odisha.

The most likely place to house a viable stronghold is the Saranda forests, due to its size & relatively less fragmentation. Had the "Lalgarh tiger" headed South instead of East, then he'd have reached Simlipal instead of hitting a dead end (literally).
But the landscape is mineral rich & the lobby-driven super-corrupt local authorities are destroying it. The same reason those areas became guerrilla hotbeds in the first place...
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In my opinion tiger originated most probably from  northwestern side of saranda landscape, means sanjay dubri or Bandhavgarh itself and not from saranda or its Eastern side.tiger comes from palmau reserve cannot be ruled out.as per satellite maps saranda and surrounding forests seems nothing more than a honey comb like matrix of forests and human settlements.although 15000 sqkm( as you mentioned) landscape may exists east of Sanjay-Dubri, palmau& Achanakmar tiger reserves,those forests may not support a viable tiger population as it lost the past glory, except several isolated reserves with little or no corridors to connect.
While we have vast forests in the south such as indravati national park and surrounding forests,
Virtually no wildlife exists due to maoist threat and unrest.sadly the new report suggests there is no tiger in this reserve.do you have any information about the extant of connectivity between kanha, tadoba and intravati national park?
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Ravi Bandhavgarh‎ 
Mahaman Male 

23 November 2018


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Rahul Tailang
“Mangu the King Of Bandhavgarh “

Dominant male of Tala Zone..And very aggressive ..He is not bold Tiger always try to avoid tourists Gypsy..

It’s a full frame shot uncropped image..he was very closed to us..
Tala Zone , Bandhavgarh Nation Park, June 18.

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Soumendu K Bhaduri
King in a different mood!!!!



T-37, Bamera's son.


November, 2018.

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Abhijit W Ghodekar
"Size Does Matter"

Umarpani Male
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The huge collarwali tigress

 
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Chota Munna  november 2018



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Parvinder Singh
Mr X , Bamera son .Bandhavgarh..

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Dinesh Sirsam Pench
Khursapar Pench 

28 November 2018
Morning safari

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The King Matkasur

October 3rd morning

Tadoba
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[color=#1c1e21][color=#1d2129][color=#616770][color=#365899]Sushant Jadhav‎ 




Ram Kumar Yadav Kanha

Umar Pani male

25 November 2018


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Monu Dubey Pench 
Stunning as he walked, we spotted a new male tiger today in the evening safari at bijamatta talab!

Royal as he walked, he looked like new prince of turiya!

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29 November 2018


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Sushant Jadhav
Magic of Shooting at eye level !!

Chota Munna aka CM aka T29 (Male)

Mukki Zone(Kanha)
Canon Gears

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Nature Safari India, Conservation Through Tourism

I do not know how the close proximity of a Tiger reacts on others, but it always leaves me with a momentary breathless feeling, mixed with excitement, ecstasy, and a sense of fulfillment.


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Jeswin Kingsly‎ 

Chota Munna

29th Nov '18


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Umarpani Male T30

Kanha | Nov '18


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Jeswin Kingsly
Kick starting this season with Junior Bajrang!



Same day last year on my first safari in Kanha I saw him along with his mother Neelam and his siblings. This year Just him being separated and alone as a huge Male. 


Kanha | Oct '18

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@Pantherinae Uma is spotted in Mukki right now, not sure where he'll be in May when you're there but he's been putting on quite a show since the park opened up.
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Mahaveer 1 (MV1) may have left Kanha for good.
In a video shared by Khamparia Nikita on Facebook group "Tigers of Kanha" a tiger (identified as him) had an encounter on what looks like the Baihar-Balaghat highway southwest of Kanha.



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(12-01-2018, 03:16 AM)Rishi Wrote: Mahaveer 1 (MV1) may have left Kanha for good.
In a video shared by Khamparia Nikita on Facebook group "Tigers of Kanha" a tiger (later identifed as him) had an encounter on what looks like the Baihar-Balaghat highway southwest of Kanha.



 

I thought that tiger looked familiar..safe journey kid.
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Balwan eldest cub of Neelam oueen of kanha 
Meadows 
Nov 18

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The mighty BHEEM...

Nov '18


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Ram Kumar Yadav Kanha
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01 December 2018


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Ram Kumar Yadav Kanha
In my 18 years of experience,

This is the first time ever I have seen a tigerss entering the mating tigers vicinity....D J female and Umar Pani male were mating since morning, all of a sudden a umarjhola female entered their private space. This was like a drama happening in front of me..... 29 November 2018


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(11-29-2018, 11:22 PM)Pckts Wrote: Monu Dubey Pench 
Stunning as he walked, we spotted a new male tiger today in the evening safari at bijamatta talab!

Royal as he walked, he looked like new prince of turiya!

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Pench,
29 November 2018


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Sushant Jadhav
Magic of Shooting at eye level !!

Chota Munna aka CM aka T29 (Male)

Mukki Zone(Kanha)
Canon Gears

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Nature Safari India, Conservation Through Tourism

I do not know how the close proximity of a Tiger reacts on others, but it always leaves me with a momentary breathless feeling, mixed with excitement, ecstasy, and a sense of fulfillment.


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Jeswin Kingsly‎ 

Chota Munna

29th Nov '18


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Toftigers India & Nepal
Umarpani Male T30

Kanha | Nov '18


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Kick starting this season with Junior Bajrang!



Same day last year on my first safari in Kanha I saw him along with his mother Neelam and his siblings. This year Just him being separated and alone as a huge Male. 


Kanha | Oct '18

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CM

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@Pantherinae Uma is spotted in Mukki right now, not sure where he'll be in May when you're there but he's been putting on quite a show since the park opened up.

Yes I have heard! Can’t wait, looks very promising at the moment.
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Bandhavgarh.
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Male Tiger - Turiya Pench

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The king of magdhi

Bandhavgarh national park
November 2018


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Khali, Hulk of "Devada"..


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New Male Tiger

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Kanha national park..

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Tiger sent to Sanjay-Dubri Tiger Reserve from Kanha under Translocation Scheme

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Dec 10, 2018

This 3-year-old tiger was rescued in mid-2016 from the Mukki Range. ©KTR Forest dept.

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BALAGHAT: Under Madhya Pradesh's Tiger Translocation Scheme, a tiger has been sent from Kanha to Sanjay Tiger Reserve, Sidhi.
Rescued as an orphaned 4-5 month old cub in April 2016 after his mother, the Chitakudri female had tragically succumbed to injuries, the tiger was being freely raised in semi-wild in Ghorela enclosure of Kanha for last two and a half years.

On Monday, necessary measurements of the make tiger's body and blood sampling we taken by the wildlife doctors and officials of Kanha, Pench and Sanjay Gandhi Tiger Reserve. This complete action was under the guidance of L.Krishnamurthy, new Field director of Kanha Tiger Reserve, Kanha managed the management. Vincent Rahim, the field director of Sanjay Tiger Reserve Direct, Anjana Suchita Tirkey, Deputy director and Sandeep Agrawal also collaborated in the operation.

From 2005 to present, including this male tiger, 7 tigers have been rewilded & relocated to Panna Tiger Reserve, Nauradehi Sanctuary, Kanha Tiger Reserve & Satpura Tiger Reserve. This tiger trans-location will help in the increase of tigers in Sanjay Tiger Reserve. 
This way, the Kanha Tiger Reserve has been successfully reared the orphaned cubs and released then into the wild to live free.

The Sanjay Tiger Reserve comprises Sanjay National Park and the Dubri Wildlife Sanctuary, both of which cover more than 831 Sq. Km, and are located in Sidhi District. The Sal, Bamboo & mixed forests of Sanjay TR are contagious with Guru Ghasidas NP of Chhattisgarh. The forest area of Sanjay Dubri is an important corridor connecting Bandhavgarh National Park’s wildlife at north and Palamau Tiger Reserve.
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