Hi.

The Tiger was tranquilised and captured in a village very near to the resort. The tiger has been living in that area for a few months and has been lifting cattle.

The tiger was put in a cage not by baiting but after tranquilising.

The issue is, the forest department has made a huge display circus with this tiger. Instead they should have kept the cage in wilderness and helped the tiger calm down.

Department officials tell me that the radio collar had still not reached from Maharashtra by the time they reached Bhadra.

Also they said that they wanted to release the tiger in Nagarhole but decided on Bhadra due to "external" pressure.

Karnataka Forest department is very poor in tranquilising. A simple Google search reveals that many tigers have died in Karnataka (especially Nagarhole) after tranquilising and radio collaring operations. Therefore we can't treat this as "one sad incident". There has been many such incidents in the past and we don't seem to have learnt from it. After all, even our memories are short lived.






Quote Originally Posted by Sabyasachi Patra View Post
This is an unfortunate incident. I am sad to hear it. One can find a few details from this link:
http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/re...s-dies_1271459

Why was the tiger brought to Cicada? For display?

Was this tiger baited and it got into a cage? How was the process done.

I am never too happy with the ability of our wildlife Vets in India. Most of the times the dosage is not correct and hence the animals die during tranquilising. There have been instances of tiger deaths after tranquilisation in some of our other National Parks. Overdose may be a possibility. Mishandling is another.

In this report Dr Ullas Karanth was quoted as saying, "Forest department officials had contacted us to radio-collar the tigress, but we did not do so as she was stressed and was emanciated. She was not eating properly as well".

One sad incident doesn't mean that any good work done by them like the closing of road was also bad. I hope this sad incident serves as an alarm call and leads to restructuring and strengthening of our forest service.

Am looking forward to the post mortem report.

Sabyasachi