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Wildlife officials capture tiger in Ramnagar village
Ramnagar
(Uttaranchal): Wildlife officials captured a tiger
on Friday after it had strayed into a human settlement
here. The tiger had been wandering around in the area
for past one month and had injured many villagers and
their livestock, the officials claimed. They said that
they had put up a cage for past one month, but managed
to capture the animal only on Friday, after saving it
from the villagers' ire. "We had put a cage for past one
month to capture the tiger.Today, it was trapped. We will
examine the animal, and if there are no injuries, we will
release it," said PK Patro, District Forest Officer (DFO),
Ramnagar. Instances of tigers wandering towards human
settlement have become quite frequent in India.There have
been many occasions in the past when tigers have attacked
and killed villagers and their livestock. Their dwindling
habitat is being cited as one of the main reasons for
this intrusion into human habitat. There were about 40,000
tigers in India a century ago. A government census report
published in 2008 said the tiger population has fallen
to 1,411, down from 3,642 in 2002, largely due to dwindling
habitat and poaching.
-Jan
10, 2009
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