Story of the Two Tigress Outside Protected Area
Ranthambhore, 3 Sept: There are stories of many tigers moving out of the Protected Area, but sometimes they themselves either move into another protected area or sometimes they're tranquilized by the forest department and either shifted to another Tiger Reserve or sent back to the same place from where they moved out.
But here is a story of 2 Tigress that not only survived outside the protected area for a long time but one of them also reproduced, one of them died in suspicious circumstances.
These two Successful Tigresses are 1st T-35 The Sultanpur Tigress (Kota) and 2nd T-117 aka Badli the Sarmathura Tigress (Dhaulpur).
T-35 the Sultanpur Tigress moved out of Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve and she moved to Sultanpur a Juliflora dominated and ravine landscape in the year 2010, she was the daughter of T-27 known as Gilai Sagar Female.
Her childhood was spent in Gilai Sagar, Aam Chouki, and Tumaka area under the Protection of her mother, but when she moved out she was now all alone, dependent on herself.
T-35 or the Sultanpur Tigress ruled the area for almost 6 Years means up to 2016.
Unfortunately, Mukundra Hills Tiger Reserve has declared Tiger Reserve in 2013 the Tigress stayed there just near 50 km from Kota Headquarters but No Concrete Efforts were made at that time to shift the Tigress to MHTR.
She was found dead in Khawada village in Sultanpur in mysterious conditions near a blue bull kill a possible poisoning of the carcass was suspected.
Several wildlife activists at that time alleged that she has been deliberately killed because she was feeding on cattle.
Meanwhile, officials at that time ruled out the possibilities of carcass poisoning and asked the media to wait for Postmortem Investigation.
Later everyone forgot what happened to Sultanpur Tigress and the reports were buried in the past.
Therefore keeping herself alive for almost 6 years outside a protected and near-human-dominated landscape, under unfavorable conditions is really a tough task.
Similarly T-117 aka Badli daughter of T-92 Sundari T-72 Sultan, who was born in Kailadevi's Mandarachal area with her sister T-118 Varsha, moved out from Phase-II of the Protected Ranthambhore Tiger Project and moved to Territorial Division of Dhaulapur which is not a Tiger Reserve surprisingly she gave birth to 2 cubs in Sarmathura area with her partner T-116 male.
This tigress is under continuous vigilance of the territorial forest staff but when any tiger is mostly dependent on cattle conflict with humans is inevitable.
Hope that the staff will be on the highest level of vigilance, and the Story of Sultanpur will not be repeated.
