Electrocution of tiger: Three officers suspended

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 TNN | Dec 28, 2012, 05.47 PM IST

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BHOPAL: The state forest department on Thursday suspended three officers including a deputy danger accusing them of dereliction of duty, holding them prima facie responsible for the electrocution of a tiger in Kanti district on Wednesday.

Action was taken against deputy ranger LB Pratap Singh, Vijayaraghogarh range, forest beat guards B B Dubey and Ramesh Kachi.

“They should have patrolled the area without fail. The incident could have been averted had the beat guards patrolled the areas and alerted the farmers against using such initiates to prevent their crops, said M K Khan, a divisional forest officer (DFO) Katni.

Fully grown tiger was electrocuted at the Vijayaraghogarh range, after it came in contact with an electric trap apparently laid by a farmer in a bid to protect his standing crops from the attack of wild animals such as wild boars.

Two separate teams have been constituted to inspect the farm land and check the presence of such wires. The teams would patrol the area round the clock, said the officer.

Meanwhile, the farmer who laid the trap has been identified as Kohli, a resident of Jhigia village, 20 km from Katni. A hunt is on to arrest the accused.

Chief wildlife warden DPK Shukla said that they have decided to depute more beat guards in the area and other important sanctuaries.

A team from Panna Tiger Reserve (PTR) has also been dispatched to Katni to investigate the matter.

The forest officials is also looking for strong actions against officers of the electricity department owing their negligence in connection with the previous killing of a tiger in Katni.

Ajay Dubey of NGO Prayatna has shot off a letter to minister for forest Sartaj Singh drawing his attention to the threat to the lives of tigers in the state in view of the state government’s failure to ensure their safety.

He pointed out that the state government has failed to set up special tiger protection force (SPTF) to protect tiger from poachers, despite a full financial support for it. Also the state government had been lingering on the formalities for CBI inquiry into disappearance of tigers from Panna Tiger Reserve (PTR) despite its announcement in March 2010. Dubey also questioned appointment of Dr P K Shukla to the post of chief wildlife warden, alleging that he has no special qualification of wild life management.

Earlier on Wednesday, he had dispatched a letter to the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh urging him to take appropriate steps to protect the tigers in the state.

 

Weakened by age, zoo’s oldest tiger fights death

By Prerna Sodhi, TNN | Dec 2, 2012, 12.42 AM IST

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NEW DELHI: Time is running out for Delhi zoo‘s largest and oldest tiger. Naresh, a fierce and restless Royal Bengal Tiger, who has saved many a dull evening for visitors with his growling and angry pacing over seven years, is in the zoo hospital with terminal symptoms of old age. He is getting convulsions, possibly due to cerebral haemorrhage caused by old age, sources say.

“His survival seems difficult. His condition right now is critical, and he is just alive and breathing. We are trying our best to keep him alive and healthy,” said a source at the zoo. Naresh is fairly old for a tiger. The zoo’s vets say tigers in captivity live to 18-20 years of age. Twenty-year-old Naresh has beaten that average.

Officials say Naresh is the first wild cat at the zoo to have fallen seriously ill in the last one year. A 21-year-old lion, Ghagas, had died in June, last year.

Naresh was hospitalised after his health deteriorated five days ago. “We have done all the tests. Blood and urine samples have been collected, but they show no serious illness. The health of the tiger is deteriorating due to its age,” said Dr N Panneer Selvam, veterinary officer at the zoo, adding that they are trying to improve Naresh’s health by injecting glucose and electrolytes. Naresh was reported to be responding to treatment till Friday but on Saturday his health deteriorated.

Zoo curator Riaz Ahmad Khan said Naresh was caught in the wild in central India and brought to Delhi in 2005 from the zoo in Bhopal. He has always been known as a ferocious cat, with a missing tooth for a mark of identity. Zoo officials say he is a lone ranger who dodged not only fatherhood but also female company. Tigresses introduced to him were invariably attacked.

Delhi zoo has five other Royal Bengal Tigers, one male and four females.

 

Villagers chopped tiger in panic

TNN | Oct 28, 2012, 01.29AM IST

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BHOPAL: “Trap was to kill an herbivorous wild animal. Unfortunately, the tiger got trapped. Villagers chopped its body into two pieces in panic to hush up the matter. Since none of its body parts was missing, involvement of an organised poaching gang was ruled out,” officers remarked.

The spot, where tiger was killed is located 50 metre from a water source. Despite being aware that the tiger and other wild animals frequent the area for water, the forest guard didn’t turn up at the spot for three days before the big cat was killed. Moreover, role of joint village management committee (JVMC) members was also found in killing of the big cat. The committee noted the poaching could have been averted with a constant vigil of water source and giving a proper attention of the JVMC members working the area.

One of major recommendations is putting a check on tourism activities in Kerwa and Kathotia areas. “Possibility of man-animal conflicts in these areas cannot be ruled out if these points are not given a due consideration” officers said.

 

Big cats on the move, 3 week campaign to collar the Tigress & the Cub !!

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BHOPAL: A week after a campaign to catch tigers roaming in the Kerwa, Kaliasot and Kathotia jungles near state capital, big catscontinue to elude more than 60 personnel of the forest department pressed into the job of trekking their movements.

The campaign is likely to continue for another 10 to 15 days irrespective of the outcome. The tigers will be tranquilised only when the conditions are conducive to do so.More than 60 personnel of the forest department, including mahout and veterinarians have been involved in the catch- tiger campaign under way near Bhopal.
Six elephants – two from Bandhavgarh national park and four from the world famous Kanha -have been trekking the jungles monitoring the movement of the three tigers.

There are two full grown tigers- one male and another female- and a 13-month-old cub -moving in the small patch of jungle. The tigress has been roaming almost for the last two years.
“Every day we come across signs of the tigers-pug marks, droppings et al or the tigers themselves deep inside the jungle, but so far they have not given us a chance to tranquilise them,” says an officer involved in the massive operation.

The decision to shift the tigers from the narrow patch of jungle was taken with mainly two issues under consideration- safety of animals and the people.
The tigers have been roaming in a narrow strip of forest close to the human population. It is in the interest of both -the man as well as the beast to translocate them to the Satpura national Park, the experts had opined.

Efforts are on to catch, preferably, the tigress and the cub, radio collar them, if possible, and shift them to the Satpura tiger reserve, forest department officials said.

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BHOPAL: The leopardthat strayed into the residential pockets of the state capital, creating panic, followed the bait and landed in the cage that was arranged by the forest staff to catch i

t near the Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM) on Sunday morning. The forest staff later took the trapped leopard to Van Vihar rescue centre and after check-up was released into the Satpura Tiger Reserve area in Hoshangabad district.When the bait (goat) kept in a couple of cages placed strategically in a few places where the sightings of the animal were reported failed to achieve any result, the forest department officials used a voice device to lure the leopard into the cage. A member of the team that caught the leopard informed that they had placed a device that had prerecorded bleats of a goat.

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Bengal Tiger DEATH, Bophal, INDIA –

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The young tiger cubwho sustained severe injuries from poachers has died this morning at approximately 5am. As more of the story comes out, this young boy was caught in a poachers clutch snare which broke his spine, and from those on the ground the poachers then beat him and broken his legs in broad daylight but got away. This was done to this critically endangered Tiger because of FAKE FALSE Traditional Medicines (Animal Body Part Use) and for the fur, for vanity and status. If we do not get more anti poaching teams on the ground, education, and political will to stop the vile FAKE MYTHS and Wildlife trade syndicates, we will all live to see the extinction of these magnificent creatures. Indian Government, WAKE UP and DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS AND STOP LEAVING IT ALL TO NGO‘S and FOREST STAFF ON THE GROUND. FUND IT!!! AND STOP LINING YOUR POCKETS…. IN THE END, NO ONE WINS IF YOU LET THIS GO ON…… RIP dear young boy xoxo You never deserved this, Im so sorry mighty angel xoxo