Tigress Killing

A 48-year-old woman was mauled to death on Saturday by a leopard in the Dhela range of Corbett Tiger Reserve, officials said.

A tigress, whose carcass with a bullet wound was found in the Corbett Tiger Reserve in Uttarakhand three days ago, was shot by a forest guard after the animal entered a village, an official said on Thursday.

The carcass of a tigress, aged 8 to 10 years, was found in a well in Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol district with officials claiming the big cat was killed by poachers, a forest department officer said on Wednesday.

A radio-collared adult tigress from the Sanjay Tiger Reserve was allegedly killed by poachers through electrocution in Madhya Pradesh's Singrauli district, an official said on Sunday.

An offspring of tigress Avni, which had been put down earlier after killing several people, had to be retrieved from the jungle following injuries in an internecine fight on Monday, having been released in the wild on Friday, forest officials from Pench Tiger Reserve said.

The female cub of tigress Avni,who was shot dead after being declared a man-eater in November 2018, has been released into the wild in the Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR) of Maharashtra's Nagpur district after over two years of "re-wilding" efforts, authorities said.

A contempt petition filed in the Supreme Court by animal rights activist Sunita Dongre was withdrawn by her after the court declared it invalid today and stated that the killing of tigress Avni was carried out as per court orders as she was a maneater.

A contempt petition against Maharashtra forest officials for killing a tigress in 2018 was withdrawn today by the petitioner - an animal rights activist - after the Supreme Court refused to take action against them, stressing that the "man-eater" was killed as per the top court's orders.

A contempt petition against Maharashtra forest officials for killing a tigress in 2018 will be heard in the Supreme Court today.

The Supreme Court today issued a contempt notice to nine persons, mostly Maharashtra government officials, in connection with the killing of Avni, an adult tigress, in Maharashtra in 2018. While the court sought evidence to confirm whether or not the big cat was a man-eater, its notification demanded answers on the reward given out for the act in v...

A cattle grazier was arrested on Saturday in connection with the death of a tigress and three cubs in Umred-Paoni-Karhandala sanctuary, a forest official said.

A 12-year-old boy was allegedly mauled to death by a tigress at a village in Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol district, an official said on Tuesday.

Three men have been arrested for allegedly killing a tigress and her two cubs by poisoning them in the buffer zone of the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) in Maharashtra's Chandrapur district, a senior official said on Wednesday.

An elusive tiger, which killed two villagers and a dozen cattle at Karnataka's Bandipur Reserve, was on Sunday captured and tranquilised by forest officials, nearly a week after authorities had come under tremendous pressure to locate the wild cat.

A tigress has been reportedly killed at Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve in Chandrapur, which lies in Maharashtra's Vidarbha region. According to the autopsy report, the tigress was around two-and-half years old.

A 48-year-old woman was mauled to death on Saturday by a leopard in the Dhela range of Corbett Tiger Reserve, officials said.

A tigress, whose carcass with a bullet wound was found in the Corbett Tiger Reserve in Uttarakhand three days ago, was shot by a forest guard after the animal entered a village, an official said on Thursday.

The carcass of a tigress, aged 8 to 10 years, was found in a well in Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol district with officials claiming the big cat was killed by poachers, a forest department officer said on Wednesday.

A radio-collared adult tigress from the Sanjay Tiger Reserve was allegedly killed by poachers through electrocution in Madhya Pradesh's Singrauli district, an official said on Sunday.

An offspring of tigress Avni, which had been put down earlier after killing several people, had to be retrieved from the jungle following injuries in an internecine fight on Monday, having been released in the wild on Friday, forest officials from Pench Tiger Reserve said.

The female cub of tigress Avni,who was shot dead after being declared a man-eater in November 2018, has been released into the wild in the Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR) of Maharashtra's Nagpur district after over two years of "re-wilding" efforts, authorities said.

A contempt petition filed in the Supreme Court by animal rights activist Sunita Dongre was withdrawn by her after the court declared it invalid today and stated that the killing of tigress Avni was carried out as per court orders as she was a maneater.

A contempt petition against Maharashtra forest officials for killing a tigress in 2018 was withdrawn today by the petitioner - an animal rights activist - after the Supreme Court refused to take action against them, stressing that the "man-eater" was killed as per the top court's orders.

A contempt petition against Maharashtra forest officials for killing a tigress in 2018 will be heard in the Supreme Court today.

The Supreme Court today issued a contempt notice to nine persons, mostly Maharashtra government officials, in connection with the killing of Avni, an adult tigress, in Maharashtra in 2018. While the court sought evidence to confirm whether or not the big cat was a man-eater, its notification demanded answers on the reward given out for the act in v...

A cattle grazier was arrested on Saturday in connection with the death of a tigress and three cubs in Umred-Paoni-Karhandala sanctuary, a forest official said.

A 12-year-old boy was allegedly mauled to death by a tigress at a village in Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol district, an official said on Tuesday.

Three men have been arrested for allegedly killing a tigress and her two cubs by poisoning them in the buffer zone of the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) in Maharashtra's Chandrapur district, a senior official said on Wednesday.

An elusive tiger, which killed two villagers and a dozen cattle at Karnataka's Bandipur Reserve, was on Sunday captured and tranquilised by forest officials, nearly a week after authorities had come under tremendous pressure to locate the wild cat.

A tigress has been reportedly killed at Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve in Chandrapur, which lies in Maharashtra's Vidarbha region. According to the autopsy report, the tigress was around two-and-half years old.