A three-year-old adult male Royal Bengal Tiger ( Panthera tigris tigris) was sighted through camera traps along the Polavaram project left main canal in the erstwhile East Godavari district on the nights of May 27 and 28, reviving hopes that the forgotten ‘Tiger Corridor’ exists. The Corridor is situated in Andhra Pradesh, along its tri-State borders.
Since March, the Andhra Pradesh State government was on a mission to trace the presence of the tiger, whose movements were reported by the local communities in S. Kota Mandal in Vizianagaram District and Narsipatnam in Visakha agency.
On April 29, the pug marks of the tiger were recorded in Krishnapatnam Panchayat in S. Kota Mandal. Within a week and above 100 km distance further towards Papikonda National Park, some more pug marks of the tiger were recorded at Pedimikonda in Natavaram Mandal in Visakhapatnam district.
