ALARM BELLS IN PANNA
Oct 03, 2020
4 minutes
By Rahul Noronha
AJAY PANNA
In mid-August, the decomposed body of a tiger, P-123, washed up on the banks of the Ken river in the Panna National Park, the fifth tiger death in the reserve in the past eight months. The park management initially claimed P-123 had succumbed to injuries sustained in a territorial fight with another tiger, P-431. One of the staff had witnessed it, they said. It was the autopsy report, which came out a month later, that raised alarm in the state’s wildlife establishment and beyond.
The tiger’s claws were missing, as were his head and private parts—a sure sign of poaching. A week
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