Navegaon: The carcass of a tiger has been discovered in the Navegaon-Nagzira Tiger Reserve (NNTR) in Maharashtra. It is suspected that the animal may have died due to electrocution.
Forest Department officials have taken a farmer and seven others into custody. The farmer’s land is situated along the boundary of the protected area.
The tiger was found dead near a field close to Bodunda village, within the Thadejari beat of the Gondia district. The tiger, identified as ‘T-39’, was approximately four years old and bore burn marks on its body.
Pritamsingh Kodape, Deputy Field Director of the Navegaon-Nagzira Tiger Reserve, stated that the tiger likely died from an electric shock. It is suspected that the tiger became entangled in a live wire that the farmer had installed near his land.
Officials suspect that the farmer and the others moved the tiger’s carcass and discarded it deeper inside the forest, within the core area of the protected reserve. There are several tiger reserves in Maharashtra, including Tadoba-Andhari, Melghat, Sahyadri, and Navegaon-Nagzira.