MP: 2 Tigers Found Dead In MP Forest, Big Cat Toll Mounts To 11 In One Month
Carcasses of the two big cats, a tiger and a tigress, were found in the Jaisingh Nagar forest range under Shahdol district, a senior forest officer said.
Bhopal: Two adult tigers were on Monday found dead in the forests of Madhya Pradesh’s Shahdol district, officials said.
Carcasses of the two big cats, a tiger and a tigress, were found in the Jaisingh Nagar forest range under Shahdol district, a senior forest officer said.
Preliminary investigation suggests that one of them may have been killed in a territorial fight, while the other may have been electrocuted after being caught in a live-wire trap laid by a local farmer to save the standing crops in his agriculture field from the wild animals, the forest officer said.
However, the exact cause of the deaths of the two big cats could be ascertained in postmortem reports, he added.
Conservationist Ajey Dubey who wrote a letter to National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) demanding its immediate intervention to curb tiger deaths in Madhya Pradesh before the state turns from the ‘Tiger State’ to ‘graveyard of big cats’, claimed that two cubs of the deceased female tiger have so far remained untraceable.
According to him, a total 11 tigers have died in Madhya Pradesh in the current year so far.
Madhya Pradesh, which has earned the tag of ‘Tiger State’ for being home to the highest number of 785 tigers as per the latest census, has recorded deaths of 55 big cats in 2025.
According to Mr. Dubey, many of these deaths were unnatural.
