Hunt for tiger after India deaths. Deadly India tiger caught at last. Tigers 'lacking variety' in mates. India 'tiger force' starts work. Learning to live with India's tigers. Image source, AFP. It is not possible to describe the terror of living in the shadow of a "man-eating" tiger. Drawing a blank.
Image source, Joydip Suchandra Kundu. Forest guards and workers give way to a tiger inside India's Ranthambhore national park. Fortunately, a tiger turning to human prey is rare. Image source, WCS-India. A photograph of the tiger in Bandipur which killed humans. The tiger was captured later. Image source, AP. A tiger turning to human prey is 'a rare aberration'.
Related Topics. Published 4 December Published 15 October If a reserve has reached its carrying capacity, dispersing sub-adults might be displaced to the fringe. In the fringe, prey species are naturally less and sparse. So tigers may suffer from hunger for several days, compelling them to attack humans or livestock when the opportunity arises. Scientists argue that some tigers may habituate themselves to become a man-eater unusual behaviour.
Once a tiger tastes human blood, it wants to taste again. However, man-eaters make up only a small fraction of the tiger population. This unusual behavior has been observed in several tigers of Sunderban of Bangladesh and India but is very rare in other tiger landscapes.
A summit held in in St Petersburg, Russia of all tiger range countries made a declaration to double their tiger population. Due to intensive conservation efforts, Nepal has almost achieved this target. The National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act, provides provision for killing of problem animals.
Section 10 a of this act allows for the killing of protected species by prescribed officers. This act allows for the destruction of rogue wild elephants, man-eater tigers and wildlife that suffer from disease or have become disabled and may not survive. Section 10 b of the same act allows for the killing of wildlife which come out of the forested area and cause considerable loss to human beings or to domestic birds and animals. What can be done to reduce the frequency of human casualties? In August, T-1 claimed three human lives in the span of just 24 days.
T-1, who killed at least 13 people and was killed in November , is brought into a post-mortem room at the Gorewada Rescue Centre Credit: Getty Images. Asghar — allegedly in self-defence, but sitting within his vehicle — fired on T-1 with a rifle. She died almost instantly. In Maharashtra, villagers celebrated with firecrackers; in cities, protestors held candlelight vigils. She tagged her posts with the widely trending JusticeForAvni Gandhi declined an interview request for this story.
Advocates soon began accusing the Khans of tampering with evidence and questioned whether T-1 had in fact charged the car — an aberrant behavior for a tiger, which usually reacts to a dart as it would something as minor a bee sting. The tranquilising dart recovered from her thigh also appeared to have been put in place after she was killed. Ultimately, no-one was punished. The entire fiasco and many of the lives it cost could have been avoided, he says, if the government had simply given the order to shoot to begin with.
India also needs to ensure families are quickly compensated for their losses. A higher-up official soon countered that since her husband had been trespassing in the forest when he was killed, she would not be receiving any compensatory funds after all.
In interviews, she learned that people struggled with confusing paperwork and that they lacked the time or means to make multiple visits the local government office to apply. Some were also deliberately denied or asked to give bribes. In , Krithi and her colleagues at the Centre for Wildlife Studies launched WildSeve, a service that acts as a go-between for people impacted by animals and the government.
An inspector soon arrives to document the case using an open-source mobile data kit and takes care of the paperwork. WildSeve now serves half a million people in villages and has filed more than 14, cases on their behalf. Processing time for a given claim previously averaged days, but claims are now paid out within 60 days. WildSeve delivers a host of other services as well, from providing individuals who suffer repeat livestock losses with materials to build tiger-proof sheds, to launching a wildlife education program that reached 3, children last year.
In other parts of the state and country, human-wildlife conflict continues to breed dissatisfaction. People are becoming resistant to the idea of more tigers. Krithi and her father believe there is still time to stop the social tides from changing, however, and to restore tigers to even greater heights — if only India decides to truly make the species a priority.
India, he continues, is at a cross-road. The country has the money needed to realise this dream, and as ever more people choose to move from the countryside into cities, it also has the space.
For now, however, this is not a governmental goal. Ullas questions whether the government has the political will to step up its conservation commitments. Suddenly something will change, and when it does, we have so many things going in our favour.
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