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Shifting of Tigress, Sundari
Why is it in news?
- Sundari, the tigress captured following a few incidents of mauling in Odisha’s Satkosia Tiger Reserve, may not be shifted to the Nandankanan Zoological Park as the Central Zoo Authority .
Why Zoo has oppossed?
- The Zoo has advised against transfer of animals from the wild.
- The ambitious tiger reintroduction programme at STR had run into controversy after Sundari, which was translocated from the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, attacked a man in Satkosia leading to his death.
- Angry villagers had then vandalised public property demanding shifting of the tigress.
- Bowing to public pressure, the State Forest and Environment Department decided to tranquilise the big cat.
- After successful tranquilisation of the tigress on November 6, the animal was shifted to a makeshift enclosure set up at Raiguda, deep inside the Satkosia forest.
- As per the strategy to achieve objectives of zoos specified in the National Zoo Policy, 1998, para 3.2.1 says except for obtaining founder animals for approved breeding programme and infusion of new blood into inbreed groups, no zoo shall collect animals from the wild.
Source
The Hindu