A tiger found dead in Goa with teeth and claws missing. A leopard strangled in a wire snare in Odisha. A lion cub killed on a Gujarat highway. An elephant shot and mutilated at the Assam–Meghalaya border. And another elephant dead from a suspected Maoist IED in Jharkhand’s Saranda forest. Five incidents, five species, one fortnight.
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For the first time in a long while, the people who need to answer for India’s tiger deaths went to Bandhavgarh to do it in person.
To preserve the tiger population, the government of the southern Indian state of Telangana has decided to set […]
The government in the hill state of Uttarakhand removed the director of Corbett Tiger Reserve, within days after […]
Armed poachers will be shot at sight in the Corbett Tiger Reserve, according to an order issued by […]
India Tiger Mortality
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2015
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2016
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70
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99
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Tiger Parts Seized |
2015
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2016
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10
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22
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Data source: tigernet.nic.in
While the largest number of overall seizures was reported by India, there is evidence that traffickers are still exploiting a previously-identified trade route stretching from Thailand to Viet Nam through Laos — three countries where the number of tiger farms has risen.