This is a short post dedicated to the recent incident of the cloud that hovers Ranthambore National Park. Recently, on march 7th 2 Tiger cubs were found dead which, sadly, corrects the save tiger project to only 1409 left. What added to the grimmace was the news of a man-eater in the National Park. Officials have firmly denied existence of any man-eating tiger in Ranthambore, possibly to pacify the tourists who were woken up one morning and given the news of 50-yr old villager being killed by 'some' animal. Forest officers are strongly rejecting any possibility of a lurking man-eater and trying to give the credit to jackals, inspite of canine marks being found on the victim's shoulder and throats. I wonder which jackal dares to clench a human by throat.
Anyway the point of discussion is not who killed whom and who is being blamed. Instead, if at all a man-eater exists he will be killed in a few days, if forest officials don't succeed to catch him alive. .If we look into the matter more deeply, we will find that about 60 Bigha of forest area has been encroached in 1998-99, Data about later years are not available. Besides Illegal poaching still continues in that area. I assume the reader is better acquainted to th fact that the biggest dealer of Tiger hide and its body parts is The China, where tiger is believed to possess medicinal properties. The solution to this lies in tightening the patrols in Tiger Reserves and providing them with more sophisticated equipments for surveilance and security, which at present are hardly anywhere near modern technologies... (blog post coninued...)
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