Caught in kitchen garden net, rescued tiger cub returned to the wild in Assam

A tiger cub, rescued from a house in Assam’s Biswanath district on September 17, has been released in the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve.

The forelimbs of the cub, estimated to be three months old, were found entangled in a kitchen garden net behind the house in Natungaon village. Officials said the cub could have wandered into the village after getting separated from its mother because of strong river currents.

A rescue team surveyed the neighbouring riverine islands to locate the mother. It subsequently shifted the cub to the Central Range Office of Kaziranga’s Biswanath Division for veterinary observation. C. Ramesh, Kaziranga’s Field Director, said the team transported the cub to an upstream riverine island based on information and evidence indicating that a mother with cubs was present in the area recently.