Somewhere in the Panna Tiger Reserve....

A tigress was relocated to Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh as part of the ongoing efforts to revive the tiger numbers there, a top forest official said. “A six-year old tigress from Kanha Tiger Reserve was put in the wild of the park directly on Sunday morning,” Panna Tiger Reserve’s Field Director RS Murthy said. “It is for the first time in the country that a tigress has been put in the wild directly,” he said, adding that normally animals are first kept in an enclosure before shifting them to the wilderness. Murthy said this tigress had been raised in an enclosure in Kanha, after her mother died shortly after delivery. The new entrant of Panna has been radio-collared for monitoring. With this, the number of translocated tigresses to this reserve has increased to three.