Gujarat: Big cat found dead in Mahisagar forest

VADODARA/AHMEDABAD: The fortnight of pleasure over tiger sighting in Gujarat has turned out to be short-lived as the large cat was discovered useless within the woodland space of Mahisagar district on Tuesday.

Much to the surprise of the woodland officers, the tiger’s decomposed body was discovered within the woodland close to Signali within the district at around 5pm.

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Twenty-seven years after the tiger was closing sighted alongside the Dang border in Gujarat in 1992, a teacher has reported seeing the large cat, kicking off a discourse that the animal has after all returned to the state. The woodland department has arrange digital camera traps within the vicinity of Boriya village to get extra proof of the tiger's presence.



Vadodara chief conservator of forests S Okay Shrivastava advised IdealNews that the carcass was discovered around 12km clear of the place where it was noticed the closing time on digital camera closing week.



Rajeev Gupta, further chief secretary, forests and environment, advised TOI: “As in keeping with the principle knowledge that we have got won, the tiger died sooner than two or 3 days. However, all four legs and nails had been in tact.” “The viscera and other body parts have been sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) to determine the precise cause of its dying,” he said.

Initial studies recommended that one of the most entrance legs of the tiger was lacking, elevating sturdy suspicion of poaching.




The male tiger was around Five-7 years outdated and it had crossed over into Gujarat from adjoining Madhya Pradesh. It was on February 6 that a native schoolteacher had photographed it crossing the road close to Boriya village. The woodland department had installed entice cameras following the sighting and it was captured in considered one of them, around two km from Santrampur, on February 12.


Since the native population as well as woodland department officers did not have any revel in in dealing with a tiger, an enormous awareness drives for its staff as well; as villagers was carried out. Fearing that poachers is also seeing an opportunity to kill the tiger, the dept had stepped up its interplay with villagers and had requested them to inform officers in case they saw any suspicious particular person. Villagers had been additionally urged that they should not divulge the positioning of the tiger to any person.


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