30/06/2015
Bhandhavgarh Tiger reserve ....
"Two imprisoned tigers accused of killing 4 persons going to be released in the forest again ".
After long period of eight months in captivity, two male tigers will be released into the wild from the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve.
The tigers had been caught by the park management following them after that big cats allegedly killed four humans and 41 cattle, in the Khitauli range of the reserve.
According to forest officers one of the tigers would be released in the Satpura National Park and the other in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, where tiger density was lower than Bandhavgarh.
The tigers, both siblings, aged about three years, were with their mother till October last year.
The two big cats were tranquilised in October and kept at forested enclosures in buffer area Bandhavgarh.
"The tigers were caught by the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve management and kept in separate enclosures at the park. They have been bred in semi-wild conditions, with minimal human contact. They have now started killing natural wild prey and would be soon released in the wild in other national parks," chief wildlife warden (CWLW), MP, Narendra Kumar, said.
The reserve authorities claimed that the tigers had killed three human beings mistakenly, while one man was killed deliberately.
