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    Tadoba tiger cub run over by train
    Pradip Kumar Maitra, Hindustan Times Nagpur, April 15, 2013

    A speeding passenger train killed a tiger cub while another cub was seriously injured near Kelzhar railway station, a buffer zone of Tadoba tiger reserves in eastern Maharashtra district of Chandrapur, some 180 kms from Nagpur on Monday morning.

    According to reports reaching at the state forest headquarters, the tragedy occurred when a tigress was crossing the railway track along with her three cubs, early Monday morning.

    The tigress and one of her cubs succeeded to cross the track but other two cubs failed to cross in time and the train hit them. One of them died on the spot while another was seriously injured. The incident occurred at 6:15 am.

    SWH Naqvi, the principal chief conservator of forests (Wildlife) and state wildlife warden informed that the injured cub was rescued by a team of forest personnel and was shifted to Wildlife Rescue Centre at Nagpur on Monday evening.

    The injured tiger cub is reported to be very serious. The deceased cub was around six months old, he added.

    The passenger train was on its way to Gondia from Chandrapur when the accident took place. The body of the cub was taken away for post mortem by the forest personnel.

    Kishore Rithe, member of National Board for Wildlife, insisted that action should be taken against the railway personnel for not keeping the speed low in such a sensitive area. “We have demanded that limited trains with slow speed should operate near the forest areas. But they do not listen,” he rued.

    According to Rithe, similar incidents were also reported in the area. The last such incident was reported when a sloth bear was killed after a speeding train hit it. A leopard was also killed a couple of years ago in this area in a similar manner, he further said.

    With the death of this tiger cub, as many as 17 big cats were killed within Tadoba tiger reserves area in last 10 years. Most of them were victims of poachers.

    Tadoba is the lone tiger reserves in the country where tigresses had given births of 38 cubs since January 2010.

    The state wildlife warden, Naqvi said that the wildlife wing has booked the railway authorities under various sections of Protection of Wildlife Act.
    Regards,
    Mrudul Godbole

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    Killer Railways: No regret from railway minister or officials.

    Indian Railways is perhaps one of the bigger wildlife killing machines. Despite lot of pleas over the years, the railways haven't created any alternate alignments to skirt our protected areas. Neither the trains maintain the required lower speed limits while passing through the forest areas.

    According to the rules, if any animal is killed by a vehicle then the vehicle is immediately impounded. However, the wildlife officials are too scared to implement this rule and impound a train. I think the time has come to do that, so the Indian Railways wakes up to the reality.

    Since that is not going to happen, may be we need to go to the courts. Today the Hon'ble Supreme Court is our only saviour.

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