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Tiger caught in South Kodagu but fresh attacks continue
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Tiger caught in South Kodagu but fresh attacks continue

February 22, 2021

School-going girl faints seeing big cat at one village; cow killed in another village  Is the captured feline same as the one that killed two persons, wonder villagers Ponnampet/ Srimangala: The tiger that is believed to have killed two people in South Kodagu within a span of 12 hours on Saturday night and Sunday morning…

Tiger kills two in South Kodagu within 12 hours
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Tiger kills two in South Kodagu within 12 hours

February 21, 2021

Elephants arrive for combing operations; Villagers resort to flash bandh Ponnampet: A tiger on the prowl in South Kodagu mauled two persons to death within a span of 12 hours. While a 16-year-old youth was killed late last evening, another woman was killed early this morning. The places of attack are close to each other…

Tiger caught in a snare amidst paddy fields rescued
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Tiger caught in a snare amidst paddy fields rescued

December 23, 2020

Ponnampet: A tiger survived the snare in which it was trapped for hours before Nagarahole National Park officials located the animal and rescued it on Wednesday.  The tiger’s leg was caught in the snare and no major injuries were identified.  The tiger was caught in the snare believed to have been laid to trap a…

Project Tiger completes 47 years: A thumps up for Big Cat conservation
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Project Tiger completes 47 years: A thumps up for Big Cat conservation

November 20, 2020

Gundlupet: It is definitely an occasion to celebrate. The ambitious ‘Project Tiger’ launched in 1973 to protect the dwindling tiger population in Karnataka forests, has completed 47 years. On November 17, 1973, the then Chief Minister D. Devaraja Urs declared Bandipur Park as ‘Tiger Reserve’ heralding a new era of tiger protection in the country….

Tiger sighting enthralls tourists  at Gopalaswamy Hill
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Tiger sighting enthralls tourists at Gopalaswamy Hill

November 6, 2020

Gundlupet: Tourists, who were returning from Gopalaswamy Hill, were a happy lot as a tiger came in front of the KSRTC bus and sat on the roadside giving pose to them yesterday evening. As entry of private vehicles is banned to hilltop, tourists and others visiting the Temple atop the Hill have to take KSRTC…

Tiger’s death at Nagarahole: A case of poaching
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Tiger’s death at Nagarahole: A case of poaching

August 27, 2020

Forest Department sniffer dog ‘Rana’ traces scent of poachers Hanagodu: The tiger that was found dead in the Kallahalla Range of Nagarahole Tiger Reserve on Tuesday was shot dead by poachers. The post-mortem that was conducted yesterday revealed gunshot wounds.  Forest officials said that this was the first such poaching incident involving a tiger in…

Duo trying to sell tiger pelt arrested; skin, car seized
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Duo trying to sell tiger pelt arrested; skin, car seized

August 1, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru Forest Mobile Squad has arrested two persons and seized a tiger pelt from them yesterday.  Deputy Conservator of Forests A.T. Poovaiah, who led the team, said that they arrested Akash Rao and Vishnu, who are in their twenties, and seized the tiger pelt. Both are from Santhemala near Krishna Raja Sagar in…

Nagarahole, Bandipur Top 3 in Tiger Census
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Nagarahole, Bandipur Top 3 in Tiger Census

July 29, 2020

Nagarahole National Park has 11.82 tigers per 100 square kilometres and Bandipur has 7.7 Mysore/Mysuru: In what is said to be the ‘world’s largest effort invested in any wildlife survey till date’, Corbett Tiger Reserve of Uttarakhand has recorded the highest tiger density amongst 50 tiger reserves in India — it has 14 tigers per…

Yoga Guru BKS Iyengar’s favourite tiger Brahma dies
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Yoga Guru BKS Iyengar’s favourite tiger Brahma dies

July 25, 2020

Iyengar had adopted the feline, captured in Brahmagiri Forests, for lifetime at Mysuru Zoo Mysore/Mysuru: A tiger which was adopted by Yoga Guru Belur Krishnamachar Sundararaja (BKS) Iyengar for lifetime died at the Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens (Mysuru Zoo) last evening.  The tiger named ‘Brahma’ was housed in the Zoo for the past 12 years….

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