The highly contagious and deadly, Canine Distemper Virus (CDV) has been confirmed to be the cause of the recent death of an entire tiger family including a tigress and her four sub-adult cubs within nine days in the Kanha Tiger Reserve (KTR) of Madhya Pradesh.
In yet another glaring case of alleged negligence in monitoring and surveillance by field staff of the Madhya Pradesh Forest Department, a radio-collared adult tiger that was recently rescued from a village and released into the jungle was found dead in the buffer zone of the Panna Tiger Reserve (PTR) in Madhya Pradesh.
The latest fatality was a one-year-old female cub, which died on Saturday evening.
The last four or five months have witnessed unpredictable human-tiger conflicts in Karnataka.
Forest officials have now been put on high alert, and additional teams have been pressed into service to keep a track on the movement of tigers in the affected areas of Mysuru and Chamarajanagar districts.
Amid rising man-tiger conflicts, a 60-year-old caretake-cum-chowkidar of the Jain Temple in the historic fort of Ranthambore National Park in Sawai Madhopur was killed by a tiger early Monday morning.
Panic gripped Mewatpur village under Pilibhit Tiger Reserve when a tiger killed a farmer on Monday morning.
A 7-year-old boy was killed by a prowling tiger while descending a hill with his family after offering prayers at Trinetra Ganesh Temple near the Ranthambore Fort in Sawai Madhopur National Park on Wednesday afternoon.
Gandhi reached here Wednesday night from Jaipur and ventured out on a jungle trek in the Ranthambore National Park in the morning shift Thursday.
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