14th May 2019

BHOPAL: A tiger was electrocuted by a live wire trap, probably set for game meat, in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh. This takes the number of tiger deaths this year to 14.

The carcass was found in Majhgawan forest area on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday. Forest officials said the poachers had laid the trap near a canal in Dudhmunia forest, close to Ranipur wildlife sanctuary of Uttar Pradesh, knowing that animals would come there to drink water.

The tiger's body parts - including paws, claws, whiskers and hide - were intact. In the past two weeks, two tigers and a leopard have been killed by poachers through electrocution in the Satpura-Maikal landscape of central India - the world's largest natural habitat of tigers, located between MP and Maharashtra - in the hope of making cash rain from the skies through black magic.

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