Kanha Tiger Reserve | 03 Feb 2025
Why in News?
Recently, a tigress was found dead in the Kanha Tiger Reserve in Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh.
Key Points
- Discovery of the Carcass:
- Forest officials found the carcass of a two-year-old tigress in the Mukki Forest Range, located in the Parsantola Beat of Kanha Tiger Reserve.
- Authorities secured the site and initiated an investigation following the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) guidelines and directives from the Chief Wildlife Conservator of Madhya Pradesh.
- Post-Mortem:
- A team of expert wildlife doctors conducted the post-mortem examination.
- Authorities confirmed that all body parts were intact, ruling out poaching as the cause of death.
- They suspect the tigress died in a territorial fight with another tiger.
- Kanha Tiger Reserve:
- It stretches over an area of 940 square km in the two districts - Mandla and Balaghat - of Madhya Pradesh.
- The present-day Kanha area was divided into two sanctuaries, Hallon and Banjar. Kanha National Park was created in 1955 and in 1973 was made the Kanha Tiger Reserve.
- Kanha National Park is the largest National Park in Central India.
National Tiger Conservation Authority
- National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) is a statutory body under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change.
- It was established in 2005 following the recommendations of the Tiger Task Force.
- It was constituted under enabling provisions of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, as amended in 2006, for strengthening tiger conservation, as per powers and functions assigned to it.