The animal is now out of danger. Indian conservation authorities on Thursday captured a tiger blamed for the deaths of 13 people, an official said.
The five-year-old male, nicknamed “Conflict Tiger” or “CT-1,” was tranquilized and captured nearly a week after authorities agreed he posed a threat to humans and authorized his capture. residents of remote forest regions in the western state of Maharashtra since December. His last victim dates from last month.
“We followed the tiger for some time and finally it was captured in the forest,” Kishor Mankar, a conservation services official, told AFP.
According to Mr. Mankar, all the victims were attacked in the forest, where some of them lived or collected firewood.
The tiger was transferred to the nearby Nagpur region, where it is being monitored by veterinarians before a decision is made on its future, it added. He will be released or held in captivity. CT-1 is not a rare case in the country.
Second tiger neutralized in less than a week
On Saturday, police shot down another tiger, which had killed nine people in the eastern state of Bihar, in a massive operation involving 200 people, including elephant trackers.
In Bhopal, in central India, an Indian university had to cancel an event for which 10,000 students were expected, because a tiger had been prowling its campus since last week.
Conservationists attribute the rise in human-wildlife conflicts in parts of India to the expansion of urban areas at the expense of forests and corridors needed by animals such as elephants and tigers.
Nearly 225 people were killed in tiger attacks between 2014 and 2019 in India, according to government figures.
More than 200 tigers were killed by poachers or by electrocution between 2012 and 2018, according to the data. India is home to about 70% of the world’s tiger population, or 2,967 recorded individuals in 2018.
Source: BFM TV
