22.11.12

Somewhere in Madhya Pradesh....



The Madhya Pradesh government efforts to revive the big cat population suffered another setback after a tigress was found electrocuted in the Badwara range of Katni forest division, which falls in the Bandhavgarh National Park’s buffer zone. This is the third big cat killed in an accident in the state in the past few months.
Forest officials in Katni said that the tigress came in contact with an 11 KV high-tension line, tethered to the ground, while attacking a cow. Some forest department officials suspect that it was a trap to kill the animal.
 A few months back, atigress was electrocuted in the Kathotia forest range some 50 km from here after coming in contact with live wires allegedly set up as a trap by poachers. A one-year-old tiger cub was also killed recently after it was stuck in a pit and paralyzed in the same forest range.
The charred carcass of the tigress and the cow were found tangled in the broken transmission line by a forest guard, said sources. The carcasses and were swollen and infected with maggots, suggesting that some time had elapsed since their death.
The regional power distribution company confirmed that power tripped in the forest area at 3 pm on Friday, indicating that the incident may have taken place 48 hours before the bodies were found.

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