9 Jan 2020


PANAJI: The death toll of tigers rose to four in the state within four days, after a tiger cub was found buried, while, a few meters away, the carcass of the mother tigress was discovered in a decomposed condition by forest officials on Wednesday. Earlier, on January 7, combing operations by forest officials had found a dead cub.

The combing operations were launched after the carcass of a four-year-old male tiger was first spotted on January 5, in the forest of Golauli in Sattari taluka.

Though forest officials said the tigers were most probably killed after feeding on a poisoned buffalo, postmortem carried out on three of the tiger carcasses have shown no evidence of death due to poisoning.

“There is possibility that the tigers died due to poisoning, but so far we have not found evidences. Our investigation is in process. After forensic reports are available, reason for the death of the tigers would be known. On Thursday, postmortem of the fourth tiger (the cub found on Wednesday) will be carried out,”

 

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