Click to play videoMadhya Pradesh: Panna National Park Madhya Pradesh - once home to 30 tigers as per government figures has lost all its breeding tigers - for over a month no females have been sighted in the National Park.
“We are planning to move two tigresses into Panna National Park because for sometime we have not had confirmed reports of tigers in that area,” says IFS officer, HS Pabla.
Alarm bells were first rung by tiger scientist Raghu Chundawat, who submitted evidence of over 23 tigers missing from Panna in 2005. With no females to breed- the extinction of the tigers from Panna is imminent
“Forest department asked me on my last visit if they can get tigers from Bandavgarh for breeding. I asked them why you want that unless there is a problem here in Panna,” says tiger scientist, Raghu.
And in Panna the signs of the crisis are evident.
“Earlier they used to lift our cattle quite often now our cattle roams the forest freely,” says Sarpanch, Hinota village, Ram Yadav.
“They see one tiger and write 10,” says a villager.
An anti-poaching watcher who has worked in the National park for 20 years, admits on conditions of anonymity.
“They say 14 in the government reports. but how? where are the tigers?,” says the watchman.
The question is will they be safe in the new home. This is another reminder that the Indian tiger is on its way to extinction.
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