A team of officials from the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and Wildlife Crime Control Bureau along with State Forest Department officials visited two of the sites in the Nilgiris where tigers, both adults and cubs, were found dead since August 16.
The team comprising N.S. Murali, Inspector General of Forests, NTCA, Bangalore, Kirupa Shankar, Deputy Director of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, Chennai, and Ramesh Krishnamurthy, scientist from the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, arrived in the Nilgiris on Monday.
They met Field Director of Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) and Conservator of Forests (Nilgiris), D. Venkatesh, Deputy Director of MTR (Buffer Zone), P. Arunkumar and District Forest Officer (Nilgiris division), S. Gowtham. They discussed the deaths of ten tigers - six cubs and four adults - in the Nilgiris forest division and the MTR.
