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Bhubaneswar: After spending more than two years in an enclosure in Odisha, tigress Sundari is all set to return to Madhya Pradesh, informed Chief Conservator of Forest (PCCF) Wildlife, Hari Shankar Upadhyay on Saturday.
The PCCF said the Madhya Pradesh government has already initiated process to shift the tigress from Odisha to Kanha National Park.
According to sources, Madhya Pradesh PCCF during discussion with his Odisha counterpart intimated that he has instructed the director of Kanha National Park to initiate process for shifting the big cat from Odisha.
Madhya Pradesh Forest dept has initiated process to shift tigress 'Sundari' from #Odisha to her original habitat in MP, informs State PCCF Hari Shankar Upadhyay
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It is expected that Sundari will be shifted to Madhya Pradesh in February. However, the exact date has not been announced so far.
It is worth mentioning that the Odisha PCCF had earlier written to the NTCA to take call on the tigress which has been in confinement in an enclosure for long. He urged the NTCA to clarify whether the tigress will be staying in Odisha or it would be taken back to its original habitat.
Sundari was translocated from Bhandhvgarh tiger reserve of Madhya Pradesh to Odisha in 2018 under country's first inter-state tiger translocation programme. The big cat was released into the Satkosia sanctuary in Angul district. But, later it was lodged in an enclosure after the animal reportedly killed a man and a woman living inside the reserve in September, 2018. The incident had triggered massive violence when a group of locals set ablaze a forest beat office.
In December last year, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan had written to his Odisha counterpart Naveen Patnaik, urging him to take special care of tigress ‘Sundari’ which was translocated from Bandhavgarh National Park in MP to Odisha’s Satkosia Tiger Reserve under country’s first interstate tiger translocation project.
Quoting media reports, he had expressed concern that the tigress is not being taken care of properly as per prescribed guidelines by the NTCA due to which the animal has lost its natural instinct and behaviour.
(Edited By Suryakant Jena)
