Tigress in Madhya Pradesh poisoned

September 25th, 2009 BHOPAL - Two tigresses in the Panna national park in Madhya Pradesh, earlier slated to get a male companion Friday, will now have to wait at least for another four weeks as the tiger identified for relocation turned out to be from the same gene pool to which one of the tigresses belongs, a forest department official said. "Wildlife Institute of India (WII) scientist Dr Ramesh, who is at Bandhavgarh, objected to the identified tiger being relocated after it was found to be from the same gene pool as a tigress already at Panna," said a forest department official, who did not wish to be named.

September 18th, 2009 BHOPAL - One more tigress was found dead at the Kanha National Park in Madhya Pradesh, an official said Friday. The partially eaten body of the tigress was found in the Kisli Range of the park Thursday.

August 21st, 2009 BHOPAL - Three cubs of a tigress, which was allegedly poisoned and found dead Tuesday, were traced two days later much to the relief of the officials of Madhya Pradesh's Bandhavgarh National Park. "About 250 park employees were on an intensive search.

August 20th, 2009 BHOPAL - The depleting number of big cats in Madhya Pradesh has gone down further with one more tigress found dead at Bandhavgarh national park and her three cubs also untraceable, wildlife officials said Thursday. This is the third tiger death at Bandhavgarh this year.

June 30th, 2009 BHOPAL - Senior Congress leader Rameshwar Thakur took oath as the Governor of Madhya Pradesh at a ceremony at Raj Bhavan today. Madhya Pradesh High Court Chief Justice A K Pattnaik administered the oath of office to the Thakur.

June 30th, 2009 BHOPAL - Senior Congress leader and former Karnataka governor Rameshwar Thakur was sworn in here Tuesday as the 18th governor of Madhya Pradesh. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Leader of Opposition in assembly Jamuna Devi, state Congress Committee president Suresh Pachouri, Madhya Pradesh cabinet ministers and other dignitaries were present on the occasion at Raj Bhavan.

June 26th, 2009 BHOPAL - The bodies of two panthers and various other animals, who are believed to have been poisoned by poachers, were found in Madhya Pradesh's Katni district, officials said Friday. "Two panthers and some other animals - all suspected to have been poisoned by poachers - were Thursday found dead close to a water hole in the Dheemarkheda range of the Kami forest division some 400 km from here," said Katni divisional forest officer A.K.

June 4th, 2009 BHOPAL - A three-year old tigress died at Van Vihar National Park in Bhopal. According to the veterinarian attached to the zoo, the tigress, 'Era' died late on Tuesday night when the intended vomit wrongly entered the lungs through the wind gullet and aggravated the lungs.

June 4th, 2009 BHOPAL - A three-year-old tigress died at the Van Vihar National Park here, officials said Thursday. The park has lost 23 big cats in the last five years.

March 11th, 2009 BHOPAL - Having successfully shifted two tigresses to Panna Tiger Reserve recently, the Madhya Pradesh forest department now plans to move a tiger too there as the sanctuary's sole male tiger is untraceable, officials said. The only male tiger found during a Wildlife Institute of India (WII) survey using the camera trap method in December last year, is untraceable now, a forest department official said.

March 10th, 2009 BHOPAL - A tigress from the Kanha National Park was airlifted Monday to the Panna Tiger Reserve in eastern Madhya Pradesh so as to increase the feline numbers in the reserve. The tigress taken by an Indian Air Force helicopter to the reserve spread in an area of 542 sq km in Panna and Chhatarpur districts of Madhya Pradesh Monday afternoon, forest officials said.

March 5th, 2009 BHOPAL - A tigress was shifted from Bandhavgarh to the Panna tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh by road Wednesday after the authorities failed to get an Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter, an official said. 'The decision to send the four-year-old big cat by road was taken due to the delay in receiving a chopper from the IAF,' Additional Principal Chief Conservator Forest (Wildlife) H.S.

March 2nd, 2009 BHOPAL - The first of the two tigresses to be shifted from Bandhavgarh Tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh would be flown to the state's Panna Tiger Reserve in an Indian Air Force helicopter this week, officials said Monday. 'The stage is all set for the translocation of two tigresses, of which one would be shifted this week and another after a gap of five to six days, from Bandhavgarh to the state's Panna Tiger Reserve where perhaps no tigress has been sighted in the past one year,' said Madhya Pradesh's Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (Wildlife) H.S.

January 24th, 2009 BHOPAL - Van Vihar National Park in the Madhya Pradesh capital may soon get a pair of white tigers from the Nandankanan Zoo in Orissa after an approval from the Central Zoo Authority (CZA), state forest minister said. But the national park will have to part with tigress Sara and a pair of jackals under an exchange programme with the Nandankanan Zoo.

January 18th, 2009 BHOPAL - A four-year-old male tiger was killed in a turf war with another tiger in Madhya Pradesh's Kanha National Park, officials said Monday. The tiger's body, with deep bruises, was found at the Kisla range of the park.