Tigress released in Bengal’s Buxa Tiger Reserve; plans afoot for three more by end of year
A tigress has been successfully translocated from Bihar to the Buxa Tiger Reserve in West Bengal as part of a multi-year conservation effort. Officials plan to introduce three more tigers by the end of the year to restore the local population.
Why it matters
This reintroduction is a critical step for biodiversity and wildlife conservation in India, aiming to restore a predator population in a previously empty reserve.
Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav on Friday released a tigress in the Buxa Tiger Reserve in West Bengal's Alipurduar district with Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari in attendance.
Addressing the event, Mr. Adhikari said three more tigers will be released in Buxa Tiger Reserve in the next two months.
Inspired by PM Shri @narendramodi ji's push for landscape conservation and species protection, today we have fulfilled the significant promise to reintroduce tiger in Buxa. T138 has been brought from Valmiki Tiger Reserve from Bihar to Buxa. I thank Bihar Chief Minister Shri… pic.twitter.com/PxglL8r0OC
The three-year-old tigress was brought from Bihar's Valmiki Tiger Reserve to populate the Buxa reserve with big cats. Although the reserve did not have any big cats, camera traps have spotted a tiger, which experts believe had wandered into the region from either Bhutan or Assam's Manas National Park.
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