25th Jan.2019

HYDERABAD: Poachers seem to have had a free run at Kawal tiger reserve in Adilabad with NGO activists helping forest officials nab the men who killed a young tiger in the past fortnight. Activists and officers also recovered the tiger skin that the poachers were trying to sell.

This is the second tiger to be killed in the reserve in less than a month. On Jan 6, Telangana’s forest officials, along with the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau and Traffic India, had seized a tiger skin in Kawal reserve’s core area, leading to the arrest of nine people who had electrocuted the big cat. Officials say that at least 11 tigers are missing from the Kawal reserve and now fear that others too may have been killed.

The latest instance was exposed on Thursday evening after activists of the NGO Tiger Hunting End Association (THEA), with the help of foresters, approached the poachers as prospective buyers wanting a tiger skin to perform pooja. The poachers were demanding more than Rs 1lakh for the skin

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