The whole issue of translocation of tigers being bred in captivity and then released into the wild has been questioned by the forest officials of the tiger rich state of Madhya Pradesh.
An RTI has revealed that the principal chief conservator of forests(Wildlife) Narender Kumar has written to the National Tiger conservation Authority (NTCA) that he does not want hand-bred tigresses to be relocated to the Panna Tiger Reserve (PTR) as his staff had faced enormous hurdles in trying to get them to readjust in the wild.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/relocated-tigers-can%E2%80%99t-adjust
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/rashme-sehgal
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/asian-age-new-delhi
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/madhya-pradesh
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tiger
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/relocation
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/panna-np
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tiger-reserves
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/right-information-rti
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/kanha-np
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/national-tiger-conservation-authority
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wildlife
