19th March 2019


An ailing tigress carrying a nylon wire noose around her neck for more than a year died during a rescue operation near Tipeshwar Wildlife Sanctuary in Yavatmal district on Sunday. T4, aged around 4.5 years, had not been seen for the past ten months in the area – on the fringes of Tipeshwar.

“On Sunday, two forest staffers had gone to fix cameras at a spot for monitoring of two recently radio-collared Tipeshwar tigers. Soon, they noticed T4 at just about 10 feet distance. They climbed up a tree and watched her. They noticed that she had become very weak and could hardly move,” said Tipeshwar divisional Forest Officer Pramod Panchbai.

Panchbai further said upon getting the news, he left for Nagpur with a veterinarian. “I directed them to call a rescue van from Pandharkawada to try and rescue her. I also started from Nagpur along with veterinarian Chetan Patond. After the rescue van reached the spot, our staff felt she could probably be caught in a net. But even in her bad condition, she attacked one of the staffers, a guide called Guddu, who received injuries on his wrist,” he said.

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