FEBRUARY 6, 2011
Story/place-Corbett
DEHRADUN: A 10-year-old tiger's carcass was recovered from a forested area near Corbett Tiger Reserve in Uttarakhand's Ramnagar on Saturday evening.
Forest department sources said the cause of the tiger's death would be known after a postmortem, but the carcass' condition suggests that the big cat may have died two or three days earlier.
Divisional forest officer Nishant Verma said the death appears to be natural and that a two-member team of Corbett Tiger Reserve vets would conduct the post-mortem.
Sources said six tigers have died in the reserve and surrounding area since December. Forest officials gunned down a man-eater tiger that had killed five people in the reserve's buffer zone around two weeks back.
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Protest against parading tiger's body
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Feb 4, 2011,
Narendra Sharma|Corbett National Park
LUCKNOW: A week after foresters killed a man-eater near Corbett National Park, a protest is brewing against the killing and "the way the animal was paraded''. On Wednesday, wildlife activists and local guides' association wore black ribbons to mark their protest.
"The tiger was was made a man-eater,'' says Narendra Sharma of Bagh Bachao Samiti, Ramnagar. The tiger was shot at on January 11. "Since it was injured, it became incapable of hunting its natural prey,'' said Sharma.
The Samiti along with other wildlife organisations and locals organised a protest at Ramnagar. A memorandum addressed to the Prime Minister was handed over to the authorities.
"The incidents of man-animal conflict have increased at Corbett National Park. Had the forest officials worked as a link between locals and wildlife in the area (for sensitising people), they would not have demanded shooting down of the tiger,'' the memorandum said.
The organisations also protested against the way the dead tiger was paraded atop an elephant. "There are several tigers present in Garjia area as shown by camera traps,'' Sharma says. The wildlife activists said the authorities have not been able to control man-animal conflict.
The tiger killed on January 27 was about 10 years old. The department has already faced lot of flak for claiming that it was a tigress. There have been no more human killings in the area after the tiger was shot dead.
But locals are still living in fear. "They say there is a tigress roaming in Sunderkhal village,'' says Sharma.
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Feb 4, 2011,
Narendra Sharma|Corbett National Park
LUCKNOW: A week after foresters killed a man-eater near Corbett National Park, a protest is brewing against the killing and "the way the animal was paraded''. On Wednesday, wildlife activists and local guides' association wore black ribbons to mark their protest.
"The tiger was was made a man-eater,'' says Narendra Sharma of Bagh Bachao Samiti, Ramnagar. The tiger was shot at on January 11. "Since it was injured, it became incapable of hunting its natural prey,'' said Sharma.
The Samiti along with other wildlife organisations and locals organised a protest at Ramnagar. A memorandum addressed to the Prime Minister was handed over to the authorities.
"The incidents of man-animal conflict have increased at Corbett National Park. Had the forest officials worked as a link between locals and wildlife in the area (for sensitising people), they would not have demanded shooting down of the tiger,'' the memorandum said.
The organisations also protested against the way the dead tiger was paraded atop an elephant. "There are several tigers present in Garjia area as shown by camera traps,'' Sharma says. The wildlife activists said the authorities have not been able to control man-animal conflict.
The tiger killed on January 27 was about 10 years old. The department has already faced lot of flak for claiming that it was a tigress. There have been no more human killings in the area after the tiger was shot dead.
But locals are still living in fear. "They say there is a tigress roaming in Sunderkhal village,'' says Sharma.
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