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T7-S2 tigress relocated to Sahyadri Tiger Reserve’s Chandoli enclosure

T7-S2 tigress relocated to Sahyadri Tiger Reserve’s Chandoli enclosure

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The Maharashtra Forest Department carried out the soft release of a two-year-old female tigress, T7-S2, from Tadoba–Andhari Tiger Reserve into the Sonarli enclosure at Chandoli National Park, Sahyadri Tiger Reserve, as part of Operation TARA (Tiger Augmentation and Range Expansion). Captured on 8 December from the Korala Core Range, Pandharpauni area of Tadoba, the tigress underwent a thorough health check by Dr Ravikant Khobragade, Veterinary Officer (Wildlife), and was found to be perfectly fit for translocation. The soft release allows her to gradually acclimatise to the new terrain, prey base, and environmental conditions before being released into the open forest, ensuring safer settlement and habitat fidelity. The operation is being conducted under the scientific guidance of the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), with senior scientists Dr K. Ramesh and field biologist Akash Patil monitoring her acclimatisation and behaviour. At the national level, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) is observing the operation through Dr Nandkishor Kale and Rohan Bhate. Field execution was made possible by the dedicated efforts of the Tadoba Rapid Rescue Team (RRT) …

Tigress Chanda spotted at Sahyadri Reserve; tracking teams monitor movement

Tigress Chanda spotted at Sahyadri Reserve; tracking teams monitor movement

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Tigress STR 04 (Chanda), released in the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve (STR) in western Maharashtra, has been keeping the landscape active as she moves extensively across the region to establish her territory. The field staff have been recording her pugmarks and hearing her calls consistently over the past few days. Along with Chanda, other male tigers, too, have begun frequenting tourist roads more often, with their presence captured through fresh tracks and camera-trap images. STR spans across the districts of Satara, Sangli, Kolhapur, and Ratnagiri. According to the Maharashtra Forest Department, four more female tigers from TATR will be released into STR. “Tigress STR 04 (Chanda) has been actively moving across the Sahyadri landscape as she works to establish her territory. People noticing her pugmarks and hearing her calls regularly were lucky; one also had sighted Chanda. Male tigers have also increased their presence along tourist roads, which is evident from fresh tracks and camera-trap images. It will be interesting to see which male approaches her first,” said STR Field Director Tushar Chavan.  STR Field Director …

Zeenat Aman posed like a ‘tigress in vengeance’ with her damaged eye after Sanjay Khan’s ‘Taj incident’: ‘You could see her swelling’ | Bollywood News

Zeenat Aman posed like a ‘tigress in vengeance’ with her damaged eye after Sanjay Khan’s ‘Taj incident’: ‘You could see her swelling’ | Bollywood News

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Zeenat Aman, who is known for being one of the most stunning female actors of all time, has always been a picture of elegance. So when Zeenat’s eye was damaged in an alleged assault by actor Sanjay Khan in 1979, it created a stir in the Hindi film industry. At the time, Sanjay was married to Zarine Khan, and was allegedly having an affair with his Abdullah co-star Zeenat. In a new interview, photographer Jayesh Sheth recalled that Zeenat did a set of photographs after her eye was damaged and posed like a woman with vengeance. In a chat on the podcast The Pooja Bhatt Show, Jayesh shared that he went to shoot some still on the set of Abdullah with Sanjay and Zeenat when they had a “strong affair.” He recalled that at the time, they were filming the song ‘Maine Poochha Chand Se’ at RK Studios and while Sanjay shot comfortably, Zeenat “objected”. “She said, ‘Please don’t publish these pictures, these are personal. I said, ‘Zeenat ji please, these pictures are so fabulous. …

Ranthambore Tigress Which Killed 2 People Caught From Behind Local Hotel

Ranthambore Tigress Which Killed 2 People Caught From Behind Local Hotel

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Quick Reads Summary is AI generated, newsroom reviewed. A two-year-old tigress, suspected of becoming a man-eater, was captured from a hotel in Ranthambore. It had killed a forest ranger and a child earlier Jiapur: A tigress — suspected to be turning into a man eater — was caught from inside a hotel in Rajasthan’s Ranthambore today. The animal was hiding behind a cottage meant for tourists and was tranquilised. She has now been released in an enclosure located inside the national park. The two-year-old tigress had strayed out of the Ranthambore National Park last month.  Around 6 am today, the people of Kutalpura village, located on the Ranthambore road, spotted the tigress in the bajra fields. The tigress had attacked and killed a forest ranger on Sunday.  In April, it had killed a 7-year-old child. So the sight of her this morning sent the locals scrambling to their rooftops for safety. Shortly after, they called in the police and the forest department, said Dhan Singh, a resident of Kutalpura village.  “It is becoming too common …

Sub-adult tigress hit fatally by train near Nagpur

Sub-adult tigress hit fatally by train near Nagpur

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A sub-adult tigress was killed on Sunday after being struck by a speeding passenger train on the Chanda Fort-Gondia railway line in the Sindewahi forest area near Nagpur.  The death of the one-and-a-half-year-old big cat is the first wildlife fatality recorded in the said railway route this year.   According to officials and local reports, the feline was hit by the Raxaul Express, sustained a fatal head injury upon impact and was flung off the tracks. The railway line, which cuts through the forested regions of Chandrapur, Gadchiroli, and Gondia districts, has been flagged as a high-risk zone for wildlife movement. Preliminary investigations suggest that the tigress was one of four cubs born to a resident tigress in the area and authorities are working to determine whether the sub-adult was alone or still with her mother and siblings at the time of the incident. The incident came to light after the loco pilot alerted officials at the Alewahi railway station.  Soon, a team of forest officials rushed to the site, where a post-mortem confirmed that internal haemorrhaging …

Three held over death of tigress; live wire laid for boars killed it in Bhandara

Three held over death of tigress; live wire laid for boars killed it in Bhandara

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Three men were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly causing the death of a tigress in eastern Maharashtra`s Bhandara district, the forest officials said, reported the PTI. As per the preliminary probe, the accused had laid electrified wire to kill a wild boar, but the tigress came in contact with it and was electrocuted. According to the PTI, the carcass of the three-year-old tigress, cut into four pieces, was found in compartment number 74 in Jhanjhariya in Tumsar forest range on Monday. It had burn marks too. The authorities took help of sniffer dogs from Pench Tiger Reserve (Nagpur) and Gondia Forest department to find the culprits. Raju Piratram Warkade, resident of Pachara village whose field is near the spot where the carcass was found, was questioned as a sniffer dog led police directly to his house, said a forest official. The big knife used to chop the carcass into pieces was found.Warkade then spilled the names of Rajendra Mahadeo Kunjam and Durgesh Ratiram Lasunte, both residents of Navegaon in Tumsar tehsil. All three were arrested, …

Odisha tigress darted in Bengal using tranquillising gun, yet to be verified if it’s hit: Officials | India News

Odisha tigress darted in Bengal using tranquillising gun, yet to be verified if it’s hit: Officials | India News

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After 18 days and crossing over 300 kilometres across three states — Odisha, Jharkhand and West Bengal, for the first time, the three-year-old tigress, who had strayed out of Odisha’s Similipal National Park earlier this month, was darted with a tranquilliser gun on Saturday afternoon at 3.15pm. However, the initiative was unsuccessful. A second attempt of darting at Zeenat was taken at 9.45 pm which, too, failed. According to the officials, the tigress was spotted in the forest area near Gosaindihi village in Ranibandh area of Purulia district and the team fired a dart from the tranquilliser gun at it Zeenat. “Zeenat has been darted with a tranquilliser gun but there are many slips between the lips and the cup. One has to see whether the dart has hit her in the right angle, whether the dart has properly penetrated, whether the tranquilising liquid in the dart is enough to put her to sleep,” said Chief Wildlife Warden Debal Roywhile speaking with The Indian Express over phone. “Our teams, including Odisha’s, are watching the situation …

Similipal tigress now located in Purulia’s Manbazar, forest officials ‘hopeful’ of tranquilising it | Kolkata News

Similipal tigress now located in Purulia’s Manbazar, forest officials ‘hopeful’ of tranquilising it | Kolkata News

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A day after three-year-old female tiger Zeenat, who had strayed out of Odisha’s Similipal National Park earlier this month, was located, in the Bandwan area, the forest officials on Friday said that it has now moved to Manbazar area in Purulia in a relatively less forested area, which according to forest officials may help them tranquilise it. The area has been cordoned off using nylon nets, the officials said, adding that the administration has imposed prohibitory orders under section 163 of BNS in Manbazar area of Purulia. “Zeenat is presently located in Manbazar. We have surrounded the areas with nets. The area is not dense forest and we feel we have a chance to tranquilise the tigress,” said Purabi Mahato, DFO, Purulia said while speaking with The Indian Express over the phone. According to sources, three cages have been put up in the Jhantipahar area of Manbazar where the tigress is, and a tranquiliser shooter has been placed in another cage. Why should you buy our Subscription? You want to be the smartest in the …

Tigress Zeenat, travelling 20-25 km every night, enters Purulia: Forest official | Latest News India

Tigress Zeenat, travelling 20-25 km every night, enters Purulia: Forest official | Latest News India

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Kolkata: Tigress Zeenat, a three-year-old translocated from Maharashtra to Odisha’s Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) in November, travelled through Jharkhand and entered West Bengal’s Purulia district on Sunday. She has been covering 20-25 kilometers every night, keeping forest officials on high alert. Tigress Zeenat was brought from Maharashtra’s Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve to Similipal Tiger Reserve last month and released into the wild on November 24 (Videograb/x/susantananda3) “Every morning, around 6 am, we track her location and identify eight to nine villages that need to be alerted. If there are school-going children in these villages, we ask the villagers to inform the forest ranger so that the children can be escorted to school, especially during the early morning hours. The tiger doesn’t move much during midday and stays deep inside the forest,” said a senior forest official of the state. Forest officials said that Zeenat, translocated to improve the reserve’s genetic diversity in Odisha, crossed into Jharkhand’s forests on December 12. She entered West Bengal on December 19 through Gidhni in Jhargram and was traced near …

Tigress RVT 03 gives birth to cub in Ramgarh Vishdhari Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan | Latest News India

Tigress RVT 03 gives birth to cub in Ramgarh Vishdhari Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan | Latest News India

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Dec 14, 2024 02:22 PM IST A monitoring team continues to keep a watchful eye on the mother and cub, said the chief wildlife warden Jaipur: Tigress RVT 03 gave birth to a healthy cub on Friday in the Ramgarh Vishdhari Tiger Reserve in Bundi district, Rajasthan, raising hopes for the growth of the region’s tiger population, said an official on Saturday. Tigress gives birth to a cub in Ramgarh Vishdhari Tiger Reserve (Representational image) “The tigress was spotted on camera with her newborn cub today,” added the official . The sanctuary staff is closely monitoring the safety of the mother and cub as part of ongoing conservation efforts. “The birth of the cub is seen as a positive sign for the growth of the tiger population in the sanctuary, which plays a crucial role in the protection of wildlife in the area. The monitoring team continues to keep a watchful eye on the mother and cub,” said PK Upadhyay, chief wildlife warden. Also Read: Tigress and three cubs spotted in Mhadei wildlife sanctuary in …