If you are a tiger lovr, here is good news for you. Sariska Tiger Reserve is will another tiger. National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has given permission for shifting of a male tiger to Sariska.
Although the news seems almost confirmed, the state Wildlife and Forest department is awaiting central ministry’s nod.
Official said the relocation is slated to occur after March 2017. Officials also informed that the wildlife department aims to translocate a tiger from outside of the state, in a bid to diversify the gene pool in Sariska.
Last year, Wildlife Institute of India (WII) had shot down the proposal of state wildlife department for shifting a sub-adult from Ranthambore National Park on the ground that genetic configuration of tiger should be given priority for future translocation instead of conflict mitigation. As Sariska tigers are shifted from Ranthmabore and after tigers vanished from Sariska in 2005, both tigers share the same gene pool.
R S Shekawat, field director at Sariska Tiger Reserve said, “National Tiger Conservation Authority has given permission for shifting a tiger to the reserve. However, officials said it is yet to be decided from where the tiger would be shifted.”
Sources added, “It depends on other states agreeing to part with the tiger. If they are not ready to part with tiger, then state wildlife department has no option but to shift one from the Ranthambore National Park.”
According to WII, it is necessary to supplement one adult male and adult female tigers every three to five years for next 15 to 20 years to extinguish the possibility of extinction of tiger population.
If the data of current fauna habitants is concerned, there are a total of 14 tigers in Sariska Tiger Reserve, four being male and nine females and one tiger cub ST-15 (below one year). Interestingly, sex of ST-15 has not been determined yet, however, the process is ongoing.
