Monday, February 2, 2015

#Tiger and two cubs spotted in Uttarakhand



A tiger and two cubs were spotted for the first time at Timli village, located near the Uttarakhand-Uttar Pradesh border, on Saturday. 

The news has excited the forest department, which now plans to use trap cameras to track the movement of the recently-traced big cats. 

On the midnight of January 31, a patrol team of Kalsi forest division spotted a tiger with two cubs on the Vikasnagar-Saharanpur highway near Timli village. 

A tiger and two cubs were spotted for the first time at Timli village, prompting excitement. (Picture for representation).

“Ranger Mahaveer Rawat with other staff were on routine patrol and saw a tiger with two cubs near Timli. There is little chance of confusion as our staff saw the big cats with the vehicle light directly hitting them. We have failed to discover the pug marks, but will now be using trap cameras to track the movement of the tigers,” Kalsi forest division’s DFO Ram Gopal Verma said. 

A decade ago, some Gujjars had informed forest staff about tiger presence in Kalsi forest division, but the report was never verified. 

“As Timli is connected with the Rajaji National Park, so presence of tiger can’t be ruled out there. Even in 2005, there were reports about presence of big cats in that area,” Wildlife scientist Bivash Pandav said.

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