The carcasses of a tiger and a tigress were discovered in the Jaisingh Nagar forest range under Shahdol district, a senior forest officer said.
Bhopal: Two adult tigers were found dead on Monday in forest areas of Madhya Pradesh’s Shahdol district, officials said.
The carcasses of a tiger and a tigress were discovered in the Jaisingh Nagar forest range under Shahdol district, a senior forest officer said. Preliminary findings suggest that one of the big cats may have died in a territorial fight, while the other is suspected to have been electrocuted after getting caught in a live-wire trap allegedly laid by a local farmer to protect standing crops.
The exact cause of death will be confirmed after postmortem examinations, the officer added.
Conservationist Ajey Dubey, who has written to the National Tiger Conservation Authority seeking immediate intervention to curb tiger deaths in the State, claimed that two cubs of the deceased tigress remain untraceable. According to Dubey, a total of 11 tigers have died in Madhya Pradesh so far this year. The state, known as the ‘Tiger State’ for hosting the highest number of tigers, 785 as per the latest census, recorded 55 big cat deaths in 2025, many of which, he alleged, were unnatural.
