Wildlife wing issues alert over ‘tiger' entering Sundargarh forests from Chhattisgarh
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Bhubaneswar/Rourkela: The Chhattisgarh forest department has alerted its Odisha counterpart regarding a suspected tiger dispersing from Gomarda Wildlife Sanctuary in Raigarh to Lephripada in Sundargarh district.
Hemgiri forest near Lephripada and adjoining areas are suspected to be the regions where the tiger is roaming. The wildlife wing has issued an advisory to the Sundargarh forest division to install camera traps at several locations to track the big cat. An alert has also been sounded.
"I have asked the DFO to install camera traps so that it can be ascertained if the animal is a tiger. Pug marks at times can be misleading. People say they have seen pug marks, but it is subject to verification," said chief wildlife warden (Odisha), Prem Kumar Jha.
Forest officers said locals have been advised not to go inside the forest and not to leave their cattle and goats for grazing. Additionally, the Ujalpur forest range installed three more cameras on Friday.
Forest officials are also patrolling frequently in the Lephripada forest. They anticipate that the tiger might have gone to the Ujalpur range as well.
"We are not sure but suspect that a tiger has dispersed. Sounding an alert helps check conflict with humans and save both the animal and people.
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Raigarh is close to Sundargarh, so the animal must have travelled to the Odisha forest. Earlier, a tiger from Achanakmar sanctuary in Chhattisgarh dispersed to Debrigarh, where it stayed for almost a year before dispersing further. Later, it was found dead in a forest in Chhattisgarh," said principal chief conservator of forests (Chhattisgarh), Sudhir Agarwal.
P Naik, range officer, Hemgir, said, "We are on alert.
Ever since we got the information about the tiger's entry, we have been continuously patrolling inside the forest. We have not been able to spot the big cat so far."
"We have been regularly patrolling to find out pug marks but we have not yet found any pug mark in Athakoshia reserve forest. We installed five cameras in Athakoshia forest on Thursday, and we have installed three more cameras on Friday to capture the movement of the tiger," said Debdutta Nanda, range officer, Ujalpur.
In Hemgiri forest, a melanistic leopard was captured in a camera trap last year, six years after a similar big cat was captured. It was also suspected to have come from Chhattisgarh.
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