Authorities in Maharashtra State, India, are trying to locate a Tiger which killed a pensioner on Monday 5 October 2020. Meroti Pendor, 70, from the village of Khambada in Chandrapur District was attacked in the evening while collecting firewood. The Tiger is believed to be the same Animal responsible for another seven fatal attacks over the past two years, and which forest department officials had attempted to shoot with a tranquiliser dart earlier in the same day.
Bengal Tigers, Panthera tigris tigris, are considered to be Endangered under the terms of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species, with the Indian subspecies, Panthera tigris tigris, threatened
by poaching, loss and fragmentation of habitat, with the result that
the total adult Tiger population in India is currently thought to be
about 3890 (up from about 1400 in 2006). As such Tigers are heavily
protected in India, and the Indian Forest Service usually try
to relocate Tigers that come into conflict with Humans to more remote
areas, preferably within national parks, though the extent to which
local people co-operate is variable, and where conflict occurs within national parks there is limited action that can be taken.
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