Poachers may have killed missing Bengal tiger
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KATH, MAY 26 - A Royal Bengal tiger that went missing two weeks ago may have fallen prey to poachers in the Bardiya National Park, officials said.
Twenty-eight-year-old Namobuddha, the first tiger to be translocated in the country and fitted with the GPS-enabled satellite collar was reported missing after the satellite failed to transmit information on the location of the animal.
The government and the National Trust for Nature Conservation in technical and financial support from WWF-Nepal had installed the satellite collar and helped the translocation of the tiger from Chitwan National Park to the Babai valley inside the BNP on January 22, 2011.
The satellite collar was expected to help scientists gain a better understanding of tiger ecology and improve conservation efforts like anti-poaching operations.
The Director General of the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation under the Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation (MoFSC), Krishna Prasad Acharya, said, "The satellite-based information is not there for more than two weeks. We suspect that the tiger may have been poached."
According to him, investigation is on and three persons have been arrested in connection with the matter.
"We will take a couple of days more to ascertain and reveal the details of the missing tiger," Acharya added.
Posted on: 2011-05-26 10:14
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