New Delhi: In one of the rare sightings of the Buxa forest in West Bengal’s Alipurduar, a camera installed by the forest department on Saturday captured a photograph of the Royal Bengal Tiger. The ferocious mammal was spotted at the junction of compartment 12 and 13 on a 22-mile road.
This is a rare unseen picture!
According to the forest department, the picture was taken at 1 pm. He said the animal’s pugmark resembled that of a full grown Royal Bengal Tiger and was found in the area near a river inside the forest, about 20 km from the road.
The recent image of the Buxa Forest and Tiger Reserve, where tigers have reportedly become extinct, created a wave of cheer.
Forest Minister Jyotipriyo Mallick said that a team of forest department from Kolkata will reach the area on Monday to check the pugmark and check the image.
According to Mallick, the state was planning to bring 20 tigers to the box from Assam, where the existence of big cats had not been seen in the past two decades.
A tiger was last seen in the forest of Baksa in 1998 and then media reports claimed another tiger sighting in 2010.
“We will set traps in 3 km/3 km area in the area (where the striped animal was caught on camera) and every adult of the families living in the vicinity since 1938 will be compensated by the Center for freeing the forest. He said, “Once the funds sanctioned by the Center reach us, we will be able to persuade those encroaching upon forest land to leave.”
The Sundarbans in South Bengal is known as the home of tigers with a count of 95 big cats in the last census.
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