A three-year-old tigress from Bihar’s Valmiki Tiger Reserve is due to be released into West Bengal’s Buxa Tiger Reserve on Friday morning, in what is the state’s first tiger reintroduction and an attempt to rebuild a population in a forest that currently has no tigers.
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Twenty-seven international wildlife organisations have written to Vantara demanding that its year-long pause on importing wild animals become permanent, arriving weeks before the Gujarat megazoo’s response to a CITES verification mission is taken up in Geneva.