Newborn tiger cubs at Panna Tiger Reserve

INDORE: Six newborn tiger cubs at Panna Tiger Reserve have become a major attraction for forest department officials these days giving a new direction to tiger conservation in the state as well as the country. Tigresses — T-4 and T-2 — have given birth to three cubs each.

Forest minister Sartaj Singh, in his address, said that the addition of half a dozen tigers in once tiger-less Panna Tiger Reserve is significant. Despite all-out efforts, tiger species in Panna had become extinct in year 2009. Forest department has set a precedent by dealing with this calamity and relocating tiger species there again.

Today, Panna tiger reserve has 11 (adult and semi-adult) tigers including five rehabilitated ones.

Panna Tiger Reserve has been conferred with the National Award by National Tiger Conservation Authority for this successful innovation.