14th Feb., 2019

BHOPAL: The tiger that trekked 300 km over two years to reach Gujarat — the second longest recorded dispersal — is from Ratapani wildlife sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh, barely 50 km from Bhopal.

A comparison of stripes from photographs taken during its journey prove it’s from MP, say wildlife officials. “This is our tiger. We have matched the images,” said Ujjain chief conservator of forests, B S Annigiri. “We were tracking it till it was in our jurisdiction. Now that it has reached Gujarat, they will take care of it. After all, animals have no borders,” he added.

The limelight on this tiger comes at a time when the MP forest department has decided to notify the densely-populated tiger habitat region of Ratapani as a wildlife division.

Read full story here