It’s their life , For a group of 28 women in the region around the Maharashtra-Madhya Pradesh border, saving tigers isn’t just some fancy phrase. it’s their life Aarati Fule , is part of the Special Tiger Protection Force that patrols the Pench National Park on the border of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh and the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra. In 2012, alarmed at India’s dwindling tiger population, 1 tiger reserves were identified for raising, arming and deploying the STPF. The 28 women are part of the Pench-Tadoba team. For eight hours a day, Fule and her colleagues walk inside the jungles – 20 to 25 km on average – where they often encounter wild animals. But there is another species far deadlier than the tigers, leopards and sloth bears that often cross their path: Humans -- poachers and hunters. There were 1,700-odd tigers left in India’s wilds at last count; 66 of them died last year, mostly killed by poachers, and three have died already this year (two in Tamil Nadu and one in Karnataka), per the National Tiger Conservation Authority’s data base that tracks tiger mortality. Courtesy, Yogesh Patel/ Sanctuary Photo Library
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 05:57:36 +0000
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