Tiger reintroduction in Buxa Tiger Reserve
Quick dive
- A three-year-old tigress, T138, was moved from Bihar’s Valmiki Tiger Reserve and released in West Bengal’s Buxa Tiger Reserve on October 2.
- The tigress is initially being acclimatised in an enclosure of about 2.3 hectares before wider release.
- Buxa is a 760.87-square-kilometre tiger reserve with connectivity toward Bhutan, Manas and Jaldapara landscapes.
- Monitoring will combine telemetry, camera trapping and field observation; habitat degradation, low prey, settlements and linear infrastructure remain major risks.
- exam_relevance: tests the difference between release and scientifically planned reintroduction, source-population selection, corridor ecology and NTCA-WII protocols, a recurring UPSC wildlife-management theme.
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