Pregnant tigress becomes victim of human wrath
It just keeps getting worse for the big cat in India. A pregnant tigress which strayed into Deulbari village in West Bengal was stoned and badly beaten by villagers.
By TNN & Agencies |
CANNING/NEW DELHI: These are hard times for the big cat. In another example of man-animal conflict, a pregnant tigress was badly injured by villagers in West Bengal on Monday. That's not all. Another tiger was found paralysed in Madhya Pradesh even as police confiscated three tiger skins in Kerala.
The tigress had strayed into human habitations in the Sunderbans and had injured three persons in South 24-Parganas district's Deulbari village. Enraged villagers stoned the animal.
The frightened big cat, which had to swim across two rivers, Matla and Makri, to reach the village, climbed atop a banyan tree.
Forest guards encircled the tree with a net hoping to trap the animal. But the locals set the tree on fire. On seeing the flames, the scared animal jumped on the net, tore it apart and escaped to an abandoned village hut. Later the tigress became unconscious and forest officials captured it. It was put in a cage and bundled onto a waiting launch. The forest guards were also pelted with stones by the villagers. Five of them are injured.
In Madhya Pradesh, an eight-year-old male tiger was found injured with its hind legs paralysed at Bandherwar village, 25 km from Satna town on Sunday. Panna Tiger Reserve authorities have tranquilised the tiger and taken it to Bhopal for treatment. Nobody knows how the injury occurred.
Meanwhile, trading in tiger skin continues. According to information collated by Wildlife Protection Society of India, in the past 48 hours, forest officials have recovered three tiger skins in two separate cases in Kerala's Wynad district. On February 16, 2008, two tiger skins were seized at Sulthan Bathery.
The forest department has arrested one person in this connection. In another case, the skin of an adult tiger was confiscated at Mananthavady. One person has been arrested in this case too.
The tigress had strayed into human habitations in the Sunderbans and had injured three persons in South 24-Parganas district's Deulbari village. Enraged villagers stoned the animal.
The frightened big cat, which had to swim across two rivers, Matla and Makri, to reach the village, climbed atop a banyan tree.
Forest guards encircled the tree with a net hoping to trap the animal. But the locals set the tree on fire. On seeing the flames, the scared animal jumped on the net, tore it apart and escaped to an abandoned village hut. Later the tigress became unconscious and forest officials captured it. It was put in a cage and bundled onto a waiting launch. The forest guards were also pelted with stones by the villagers. Five of them are injured.
In Madhya Pradesh, an eight-year-old male tiger was found injured with its hind legs paralysed at Bandherwar village, 25 km from Satna town on Sunday. Panna Tiger Reserve authorities have tranquilised the tiger and taken it to Bhopal for treatment. Nobody knows how the injury occurred.
Meanwhile, trading in tiger skin continues. According to information collated by Wildlife Protection Society of India, in the past 48 hours, forest officials have recovered three tiger skins in two separate cases in Kerala's Wynad district. On February 16, 2008, two tiger skins were seized at Sulthan Bathery.
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The forest department has arrested one person in this connection. In another case, the skin of an adult tiger was confiscated at Mananthavady. One person has been arrested in this case too.
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