Sorry again to begin the New Year on a negative note. In less than a month’s time, when wildlife lovers have not forgotten the gruesome incident of a tiger poaching and the images of the tiger carcass hanging from a tendu tree, another tiger was killed. The December 7 tiger poaching had happened 20 kms away from the park this time the tiger poaching has taken place right inside Panna national park. The tiger was electrocuted in Kishenganj range of buffer zone of the tiger reserve.
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The field director also said that the trap was laid for wild boar hunting but the tiger was killed. Even if the poachers intended to kill a wild boar that too inside the park, it is something very serious and can’t be taken lightly. The park director hardly has any experience of wildlife conservation and management and it was perhaps his first such posting. Unfortunately, there is a dearth of good officers in Madhya Pradesh who are interested in wildlife.
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The state’s protected forest area is spread across 10 national parks and 26 wildlife sanctuaries but there seems to be a shortfall of a dedicated green force to protect this wealth, admits a senior official of Indian forest service in this central Indian state. In 2009, Panna had witnessed a catastrophe when all its tiger population was poached and the tiger became extinct from the park. It was followed by a successful tiger relocation programme . Presently, there are more than 70 tigers in Panna tiger reserve. Many of the big cats of the tiger reserve have to move out to create territory and when they do so, they are killed.
By Deshdeep Saxena
Images Courtsey Panna Tiger Reserve
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