Wildlife corridors between Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh help increase tiger population
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In 2018, a young tigress stopped appearing on camera traps in Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh. There was no official report of conflict as well as no records of carcass recovery or poaching incidents. This indicated that she had not died within the reserve.
However, for nearly three years, there was no photographic trace of her anywhere in the official monitoring grids of Madhya Pradesh.
Then, in 2021, camera traps in Achanakmar Tiger Reserve in the neighbouring state of Chhattisgarh captured a tigress moving through the sal forest with cubs trailing behind her. The stripe pattern verification confirmed what the field staff suspected. She was the same tigress. She had crossed over from Madhya Pradesh to Chhattisgarh – nearly 400 kilometres. Forest officials later named her Jhumri. In official monitoring records, she was catalogued as TK-8.
Experts say that when she disappeared from Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, she had reached dispersal age, a stage in a tiger’s life, usually between two and three years old, when remaining in the natal territory is no longer possible.
Bandhavgarh is one of India’s most densely populated tiger reserves. In such landscapes, ecological success creates pressure. When prey density is high and breeding females are established, cub survival...