31 Mar 2020



A male tiger from Tipeshwar Wildlife Sanctuary in Yavatmal district of Vidarbha has set a record by covering over 3,000 km before settling down in the Dnyanganga Wildlife Sanctuary in Buldana district.

Identified by wildlife officials as T1C1, the tiger’s marathon trek included several back and forth journeys from Tipeshwar to neighbouring Adilabad forest in Telangana and also to Painganga Sanctuary, and from Dnyanganga to Ajanta hills in Aurangabad.

“He has till date covered 3,020 km and has more or less settled down in Dnyanganga over the past about three months,” Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (Wildlife) Nitin Kakodkar told The Indian Express.

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