The Buxa Tiger Reserve (BTR) is all set to get its first tigers as the Assam government has agreed to provide six Royal Bengal tigers from the Kaziranga National Park. With the arrival of the six tigers from Kaziranga, BTR will be able to end its dubious distinction of not being able to show any direct evidence of a tiger population for the last 30 years. No tigers were found in Buxa in the 2018 Tiger Census.
The fencing that separates the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve from the human habitation was damaged in at least three places as cyclone Amphan has ravaged West Bengal but there was no incident of big cats straying into localities, a top forest department official said.
The control rooms in Gosaba in South 24 Parganas district and Salt Lake near here have not received any incident of tigers or other wild animals straying into adjacent villages in the past three days, Chief Wildlife Warden Ravikant Sinha told PTI.
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