Click to play videoNew Delhi: Wildlife officials are searching for a tiger in Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh since December fearing that it has turned into a man-eater.
The tiger, which strayed into human settlements, first killed a 13-year old boy in December. It recently killed two persons recently at Pilibhit and Barabanki. The UP forest department has formed of shooters armed with guns loaded with tranquilisers and given them elephants to track the tiger.
Wildlife activists though are shocked that the District Magistrate has offered Rs 50,000 to anyone who could kill the tiger—a task which they say should be the job of the forest department. “Putting a cash prize on a tiger is a ridiculous thing. There are only 80-100 tigers left in UP,” says wildlife activist Koushalendra Singh.
The failure of the authorities to trap the animal for over a month now raises important questions about the forest department- are they equipped to handle this crisis? As this team continues their task of catching the man-eater dead or alive- in a country with a rapidly declining population of tigers - its another loss for the big cat.
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