Six tigers – four adults and two sub-adults, have been unaccounted for since March 2020 at the Ranthambore Tiger Sanctuary in Rajasthan. However, the state’s forest officials are not ready to label them “missing” and have denied reports that they may go hunting.
Independent wildlife groups such as Tiger Watch have alleged that tigers have been missing for more than a year and “negative human intervention” is one of the reasons [poaching]”Cannot be ruled out.
The National Tiger Conservation Authority, a wing of the Union Ministry of Environment, has constituted a committee to find out the disappearance of tigers. RP Gupta, Secretary, Ministry of Environment, said that while a report was still awaited from the state, it was not uncommon for tigers to go out of the reserve – even Mathura, Uttar Pradesh; Bharatpur in Rajasthan and Dati in Madhya Pradesh – but he has not ruled out other reasons.
The Chief Conservator of Ranthambore Tiger Reserve, TC Verma, has not had any camera trap images of six creatures since March. Hindu. An estimated 70 tigers of Ranthambore exceeded its carrying capacity, he said, and the new tigers were outshining the old ones and so the tigers presumably went out of their territories.
Scientist Qamar Qureshi of Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun said that the disappearance of tigers is a cause for concern. “The descriptions are sketches but generally established adults do not venture too far. So if it is a tiger category and not yet captured on camera, then there is cause for concern. Also, special areas in Ranthambore are notorious for poaching. Hindu.
The Ranthambore Sanctuary is the only source of tigers in the region, where as per the latest census made last year, more than 90% of the 53 tigers are in this block.
The Ranthambore Forest Sanctuary consists of highly fragmented forest areas, ravines, rivers and agricultural lands. The Ranthambore Tiger Reserve is connected to the Kuno-Palpur landscape in Madhya Pradesh through parts of the Kailadevi Wildlife Sanctuary, the rugged areas of Chambal and the forest patch of Sheopur. The tributaries of the Chambal river provide an easy route for tigers to reach Kuno National Park.
According to the census results made public on July 29 last year, there are 2,967 tigers in 2014, third in comparison to India. According to this practice, there were 55 tigers in Ranthambore.
Madhya Pradesh has the highest number of tigers at 526, followed by Karnataka (524) and Uttarakhand (442). Chhattisgarh and Mizoram saw a decline in tiger population and an increase in all other states.
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