ROARrrrr for Jungle Tiger
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Over the last few months, close to 150 deer from the city have been dumped in the Kawal Tiger Reserve in Adilabad in the name of enhancing the big cat population there.
The result, as findings suggest, has been far from impressive. Despite an increase in the deer count, Kawal continues to have just six (approx) tigers, a figure that has not changed in many years now. Ditto, the Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve (NSTR) that has roughly 60 big cats at present.
While this tiger belt, largest in Andhra Pradesh, has seen a marginal increase in numbers, activists argue that the reason is rooted in better breeding of the animal as against a rise in deer population. For about 10 years now, thousands of deer have been shifted from the city to NSTR.
