The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) of the ministry of environment, forest and climate change has issued a ‘red alert’ directing the authorities to visit all tiger reserves.
The bureau directed all concerned officials to immediately intensify the patrolling in sensitive areas amid the excessive poaching of tigers.
The red alert was issued a few days after a beheaded carcass of an adult tiger was found in Madhya Parsdesh’s Satpura Tiger Reserve. The decomposed headless carcass was found in the core area of the reserve on Monday, according to officials.
The red alert is issued for six tiger reserves across India, including two of Madhya Pradesh and three districts of MP, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra.
According to the red alert hunters/poachers are active around various tigers across India, but mainly in above mentioned states.
it stated that organised hunting gangs are seen active around various tiger reserves, especially Satpura, Tadoba, Pench, and Corbett. Amangarh, Pilibhit, Valmiki, Rajaji, and tiger bearing areas such as Balaghat district of MP, Gadchiroli and Chandrapur of Maharashtra.
It directed field directors of all tiger reserves and officials concerned to immediately intensify the patrolling, visit the identified sensitive areas, look for the suspected nomadic people in tents, temples, railway stations, bus stations, abandoned buildings, public shelter places and inform the officials of all the police stations concerned and sanitise aforesaid areas as a preventive measure.
The red alert was issued after the seizure of some parts of the tiger in Northeast states, said an official of the WCCB.
A total of 100 tigers have been killed across India till date in 2023, out of which a maximum of 26 tigers died in Madhya Pradesh.
Significantly, for the last several years, Madhya Pradesh is on the top in tiger deaths