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Time of India
20-05-2025
- Time of India
Forest authorities act after two tiger-related deaths in Pilibhit
File image used for representative purpose. PILIBHIT: In the wake of two fatal man-tiger encounters in Pilibhit — on May 13 in village Nazirganj and on May 18 in village Haripur Kishanpur — the PCCF (Principal Chief Conservator of Forest, Wildlife) of UP, Anuradha Vemuri, took serious note of SOP violations. On Monday, she directed Pilibhit Tiger Reserve 's (PTR) field director, Vijay Singh, to submit a detailed report within 12 hours. She also instructed Dudhwa Tiger Reserve field director H Rajamohan to deploy experienced personnel to track the tigers responsible and identify them through pugmark analysis. Shahjahanpur assistant conservator Sushil Kumar failed in tracing and measuring pugmarks in both cases — crucial steps for identifying the tigers' sex, age, and whether one or two animals were involved. Vemuri also sought an explanation from Khutar Range Officer Manoj Shrivastav for his absence at both conflict sites. The villagers of the two affected villages in Pilibhit, which come under the jurisdiction of Khutar forest range of Shahjahanpur, repeatedly alerted forest officials regarding a month-long prowling of a tigress and a tiger in agricultural fields, but no remedial action was taken. The locals alleged that this apathetic attitude of forest officials was responsible for the loss of two lives. Forest personnel placed a cage in Nazirganj village near the spot of the fatal conflict, but without any live or inanimate bait — which villagers termed a deceptive measure. It is also strange that the camera traps installed near the two conflict spots failed to capture any images of the killer felines. The PCCF (Wildlife) said that as the concerned rural pocket was in proximity to the junction point of Pilibhit Tiger Reserve and Kishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary of Dudhwa Tiger Reserve, field forest teams of the two forest areas were constituted and deployed in the two villages. She said that once the feline was identified, immediate permission to tranquilise him or her would be granted. 'A team from the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) was also sent to the spot to check the camera installation and to set up ANIDERS (Animal Intrusion Detection and Repellent System) in a bid to trace the felines,' she added.
Time of India
25-04-2025
- Time of India
Elderly woman sleeping outside her house due to heat mauled to death by leopard in Shirur
Pune: An 82-year-old woman sleeping outside her house because of the unbearable heat was attacked and mauled to death by a leopard at Inamgaon village in Shirur early on Friday. Her decapitated body was later spotted in a sugar cane field by forest officials. The woman was fast asleep when the leopard pounced on her and dragged her around 700 feet away to a sugar cane field. The incident occurred around 4.30am. This was the first death in a leopard attack in the district this year, forest officials said. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Google Brain Co-Founder Andrew Ng, Recommends: Read These 5 Books And Turn Your Life Around Blinkist: Andrew Ng's Reading List Undo In December last year, a 4-year-old girl was killed in a leopard attack in Shirur at Pimpalsuti village, around 4km from the site of Friday's attack. A senior forest official said that the woman, who had been suffering from asthma, was sleeping in the open as she could not sleep inside her house due to extreme heat. "The leopard first attacked the two dogs sleeping near the victim. However, the dogs managed to escape, following which the big cat attacked the woman and dragged her by her neck to a nearby sugar cane field," an official said. The leopard attacked only her neck and there were no other injuries on other parts of her body, he said. Smita Rajhans, assistant conservator of forest, Junnar Forest Division, said, "A team immediately went to the spot after the forest department was informed about the incident around 5.45 am. We conducted preliminary investigation as per the protocol. It was confirmed that the woman died in a leopard attack. Later, the body was sent for post-mortem." The forest department has deployed cages at five places to capture the big cat. Additionally, trap cameras have been installed at nine places. Two rotating cameras have also been installed. ANIDERS (Animal Intrusion Detection and Repellent System), machines have also been installed in the area as a preventive measure, Rajhans said. These machines are used to deter leopards and other wild animals from entering human habitations. The forest department has already set up a base camp at Nhavare, a village located around 5-6 km from the attack site, considering the increased presence of leopards in the area. Rajhans said that leopard sightings have increased in areas around Shirur and Daund. "The leopard population is rapidly increasing, and they need a new territory every two years. Hence, a large number of them are migrating towards Shirur and Daund, particularly around rivers, as these areas are also witnessing increased sugar cane farming," she said. |
