- BY tictac
- POSTED IN Jungle News
- WITH 0 COMMENTS
- PERMALINK
- STANDARD POST TYPE
BHUBANESWAR: Having evaded forest officials for over two weeks since its second suspected human kill, tigress Sundari was on Tuesday tranquillised and captured at Majhipada in Satkosia Tiger Reserve of Odisha.
Kunki elephant Yoshada, who was brought to Satkosia from Chandaka Wildlife Sanctuary for the purpose of tracking Sundari, helped the team of Wildlife Institute of India scientists, two experts from Kanha Tiger Reserve and local wildlife & veterinary officials zero in on her location.
Sundari was darted after she came back to finish eating a buffalo calf the wildlife personnel had planted as bait.
Sundari, the second big cat to be brought to Satkosia from Madhya Pradesh as part of the country’s first inter-state tiger translocation project, regained consciousness in her cage while being taken to Raiguda, around 20km from Majhipada, where she was placed in an enclosure.
The tigress had been housed in the enclosure at Raiguda from June 29, the day she arrived in Odisha from Bandhavgarh, to August 17, the day she was allowed to walk out to explore the wilds of Satkosia.
Divisional forest officer (Satkosia) P Ramaswamy said, “The tigress was safely brought to Raiguda and released into the enclosure. We are yet to decide on how long she will be kept there.”