Slain tigress found in Corbett’s range

DEHRADUN: An 8-member team of forest guards led by wildlife warden Satish Upadhyay recovered a mutilated carcass of a 6-year-old tigress early on Friday. The killing is suspected to be the work of poachers between Jhirna and Amangari forest areas under the Corbett National Park (CNP)’s Kalagarh forest range.

CNP director Ranjan Mishra said a team of forest guards on a routine round trip of the Kalagarh forest range found the tigress’ body at 6am. A senior IFS officer said they had beefed up security and sounded a red alert in the park since the last week on a report that members of the Bavaria gang had managed to enter the park to poach big cats.

According to a senior IFS officer, the body appeared to be of a tigress killed by a sharp-edged weapon. He said that the post-mortem of the carcass was on being done by a three-member team of veterinary surgeons

“Once it is ascertained that the female tiger was poached by members of Bawaria gang we will intensify efforts to nab them,” said Upadhyay.