Pensioner killed by Tiger in Maharashtra State, India.

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.

 

A Tiger in the Umred Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary in Maharashtra State, India. Wildlife Institute of India.

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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Infant consumed by Leopard in Maharashtra State, India.

A nine-month-old infant has died after being snatched from his home in Chandrapur District, Maharashtra, on Sunday 2 June 2019. Swaraj Gurnule went missing while sleeping in a house with his parents, who informed Forestry Department officials as soon as the realised he was missing. The partially consumed remains of the child were found about 2 km from his home. Forest officials are now setting camera traps up in the area, with a view to capturing and relocating the animal.

A Leopard on the Nagzira Wildlife Sanctuary in Maharashtra State, India. Hrishikesh Burkule/Trover.

Leopards are considered to be Vulnerable under the terms of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species, with the Indian subspecies, Panthera pardus fusca, considered to be particularly vulnerable due to India's rapidly rising Human population, which has resulted in agriculture and other Human activities expanding into many former wilderness areas. For this reason the Indian Forest Service usually try to relocate Leopards 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.

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