Sorry once more to start the New 12 months on a unfavourable notice. In lower than a month’s time, when wildlife lovers haven’t forgotten the grotesque incident of a tiger poaching and the photographs of the tiger carcass hanging from a tendu tree, one other tiger was killed. The December 7 tiger poaching had occurred 20 kms away from the park this time the tiger poaching has taken place proper inside Panna nationwide park. The tiger was electrocuted in Kishenganj vary of buffer zone of the tiger reserve.
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The most recent case of tiger poaching was reported on the intervening night time of January 3 and 4. In truth a hyena was additionally electrocuted. It was a properly constructed stunning tiger that misplaced life proper contained in the park the place poachers used the provision line passing from the park to kill the animal. However extra miserable was a press release of the park director, Brajendra Jha who mentioned this was a part of the delivery of tigers and their demise. Extra tigers have been born in Panna tiger reserve than those that have died, he mentioned with out blinking a watch. He additionally mentioned that almost all of such incidents happen within the night time however it was not potential to patrol all alongside the provision traces passing over the park.
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The sphere director additionally mentioned that the entice was laid for wild boar searching however the tiger was killed. Even when the poachers supposed to kill a wild boar that too contained in the park, it’s one thing very severe and might’t be taken frivolously. The park director hardly has any expertise of wildlife conservation and administration and it was maybe his first such posting. Sadly, there’s a dearth of fine officers in Madhya Pradesh who’re taken with wildlife.
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With the utmost variety of 526 tigers , Madhya Pradesh additionally has the most important forest cowl within the nation, adopted by Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Maharashtra .The forest cowl contributes 25.14% of the entire geographical space of the state and is unfold over 77493 sq km space, in line with India State of the Forest Report 2021.
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The state’s protected forest space is unfold throughout 10 nationwide parks and 26 wildlife sanctuaries however there appears to be a shortfall of a devoted inexperienced drive to defend this wealth, admits a senior official of Indian forest service on this central Indian state. In 2009, Panna had witnessed a disaster when all its tiger inhabitants was poached and the tiger turned extinct from the park. It was adopted by a profitable tiger relocation programme . Presently, there are greater than 70 tigers in Panna tiger reserve. Lots of the large cats of the tiger reserve have to maneuver out to create territory and once they achieve this, they’re killed.
By Deshdeep Saxena
Photos Courtsey Panna Tiger Reserve