Twenty-five tigers missing from Ranthambore, Rajasthan chief wildlife warden orders inquiry

Chief Wildlife Warden (CWW) Pavan Kumar Upadhyay has set up a three-member committeethe first such instance for the reserveto investigate the case of the missing tigers...

The focus should be on the overall number of tigers in the reserve, rather than on missing tigers and blaming the forest department for mismanagement.. km, the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve near Sawai Madhopur town of Rajasthan officially had around 88 tigers in 2023..

The panel was tasked to look into the efforts made by the forest department to look for the tigers, go through the tiger monitoring records of the department, flag any incompetency/carelessness by forest officials if found, and submit recommendations to make the monitoring system more stringent..

Dharmendra Khandal, an author and conservation biologist with the Ranthambore-based NGO Tiger Watch, gave three possible reasons for the case of missing tigers...

Tigers could have died in territorial fights within the reserve, without the knowledge of the forest department, he said..

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