Tigress rescued from abandoned rubber factory in U.P.
The Hindu
‘She will be released in the Kishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary, which has a good prey base’
A tigress living in an abandoned rubber factory in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district at least since December 2019 was rescued after an 18-day tracking operation, said officials on Friday. The tigress was first detected in the dilapidated factory, just around 6 km east of Bareilly, in November-December, 2019, Mayukh Chatterjee, head Human-Wildlife Conflict Mitigation, Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), told The Hindu. The operation was carried out by a team of the Uttar Pradesh Forest Department along with the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve and the WTI.More Related News