6 tigers lost at Kanha
10 Feb, 2009
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6 tigers lost at Kanha
There's more bad news from Kanha Tiger Reserve. Tragically, another tiger was found dead in Kisli Range, yesterday morning. It was a beautiful adult male, in his prime. The animal was found lying in a waterhole with head injuries that had apparently been inflicted by another tiger. A post mortem was carried out and samples have been sent for forensic analysis.
This brings the total number of tigers that are confirmed to have died inside Kanha Tiger Reserve in the past three months to six, five of them apparently from 'in-fighting'. Apart from this, a tiger skin was seized in the town of Balaghat, near Kanha, on 11 November 2008. There are also four other unsubstantiated tiger deaths - two cubs and a male tiger on 20 January (in Kisli Range), and an adult tigress on 21 January (in Mukki Range):
CONFIRMED TIGER DEATHS INSIDE KANHA TR OVER THE PAST 12 WEEKS:
1. Adult male tiger electrocuted near Sautia village, Kanha TR – 1 Nov 08
2 & 3. Two young tiger cubs found dead near Indri Camp, Kanha TR – 3 Jan 09
4. Adult male tiger found dead near Salghat, Kanha TR – 18 Jan 09
5. Adult male tiger found dead near Aurai Camp, Kanha TR – 31 Jan 09
6. Adult male tiger found dead near Dhamman Village, Kanha TR – 4 Mar 09
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