India: Poached? Over 40 tigers go missing in Maharashtra
Tigers seem to be fast disappearing from several habitats in Maharashtra.
NAGPUR: Tigers seem to be fast disappearing from several habitats in Maharashtra. Preliminary findings of the 2014 tiger census and figures obtained through RTI of last year's state-level count reveal that more than more than 40 tigers have gone missing across three sanctuaries in the state as compared with 2010 estimates.
The alarming drop in numbers cannot be explained by natural variation in the tiger populations, and points to the handiwork of poachers, sources said.
The 2013 state census reveals there are just five tigers left in the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve in western Maharashtra. That's a drop of 16 tigers in three years. Similarly, the initial 2014 count revealed to TOI by sources shows a tiger population of six in the Navegaon-Nagzira Tiger Reserve, a sharp fall of 14 from the 2010 census estimates of 20 in this 657-sq-km forest in eastern Maharashtra.
The alarming drop in numbers cannot be explained by natural variation in the tiger populations, and points to the handiwork of poachers, sources said.
The 2013 state census reveals there are just five tigers left in the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve in western Maharashtra. That's a drop of 16 tigers in three years. Similarly, the initial 2014 count revealed to TOI by sources shows a tiger population of six in the Navegaon-Nagzira Tiger Reserve, a sharp fall of 14 from the 2010 census estimates of 20 in this 657-sq-km forest in eastern Maharashtra.
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