For the first time a tigress kept directly to the wilderness
BHOPAL: A tigress on Sunday relocated to Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, as a part of the ongoing efforts to revive the tiger population there, a top forest official said.
Panna Tiger Reserve’s field director, RS Murthy said, “A six-year old tigress from Kanha Tiger Reserve was put in the wild of the park directly this morning.”
He said, “It is for the first time in the country that a tigress has been put in the wild directly,” Normally animals are first kept in an enclosure before shifting them to the wilderness, he added.
Murthy said that this tigress had been raised in an enclosure in Kanha, after her mother died shortly after the delivery. She has been radio-collared for the purpose of monitoring. With this, the number of translocated tigresses to this reserve has increased to three.
