Tiger Reserves

BHOPAL: As environmentalists across the world are in high spirits for increase of wild tigers first time in 100 years, the population graph of big cats in Madhya Pradesh, a major contributor, has unexpectedly gone down by 22 since January 2015.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.
Latest loss was reported from Kanha National Park where one out of the two cubs, translocated from Pench National Park, died of septicaemia on Monday. Both were captured and shifted in a hurry after their mother and two siblings got killed in Pench consuming a poisoned kill.
"This cub was in a bad shape with fatal wounds on its leg. It was weak and was not taking food," Ravi Srivastava, state's chief wildlife warden told TOI. He said four villagers have been arrested for killing the tigress and three cubs.
"It's sure that they had poisoned a water body using some pesticide with intention to kill deers. But we are waiting for forensic report on the water and samples of hair recovered from tigers for further action," he said.
The wildlife chief also said that there was no lacuna on part of forest officials in any of these deaths.

Referring to controversies and allegations pertaining death of Blue-eyed tiger at Bandhavgarh national park (BNP) Srivastava said, "Some people said that an overdose of tranquilising shot killed the tiger. But, I have closely examined the report. It had deep wounds around the neck with clear evidences of canine tooth. And stomach was empty."