Catching tiger kills 13 people in India
Yesterday, Thursday, Indian wildlife authorities caught a tiger that killed 13 people over a ten-month period, a local official said.
The five-year-old animal, known as the "conflict tiger" or "CT-1", was calmed and captured about a week after officials declared it a threat to humans and authorized its capture.
The tiger has been accused of causing 13 deaths in remote forested areas of western Maharashtra since last December, including two in one day.
The last victim of an attack attributed to the tiger fell last month.
"The tiger was tracked for some time until it was finally caught in the forest," wildlife official Kishore Mankar told AFP.
Mankar pointed out that all the victims were attacked inside the forest area, where some were living or entering to collect firewood.
He said the tiger has been moved to nearby Nagpur and is being monitored by veterinarians before a decision can be made about his future, with the possibility of being released or kept in captivity.
And this tiger is not the only annoying in India, the police shot dead Saturday another tiger killed nine people in the state of Bihar in the east of the country, in a major operation in which two hundred people, including elephant groomers, participated.
Students at a university in the central state of Madhya Pradesh were asked to stay indoors after dark because a tiger roamed around the campus.
Environmental activists attribute these cases to the rapid expansion of human settlements around forests and major wildlife routes, such as the habitats of elephants and tigers, which are a source of increased clashes between humans and animals in some parts of India.
About 225 people died in tiger attacks between 2014 and 2019 in India, according to government data.
These statistics revealed that more than 200 tigers were killed by illegal poachers or by electrocution between 2012 and 2018.
India has about 70% of the world's tigers, with 2,967 tigers in the country in 2018.
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