Slip-sliding away: Now, no female tigers left in Panna

26 August, 2007


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Slip-sliding away: Now, no female tigers left in Panna

Now, what we have all feared for years has finally happened: a remnant population of tigers has become genetically unviable and doomed to extinction. The Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh has only five to seven tigers left, and all of them are males. The reserve, which was once home to 30 tigers according to government figures, has lost all its breeding tigers. For over a month no females have been sighted here.

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