TNN | May 27, 2020, 04:48 IST
Ahmedabad/Vadodara: Once again, a video purporting to show a tiger in Santrampur, has gone viral. The clip reportedly showed a tiger on the Umber hills in Santrampur taluka in Mahisagar. The clip stirred excitement, galvanizing the officials of the forest department into launching a search. In the end, it was determined that the big cat was a leopard.
Forest officials said this is not the first intimation of a tiger in the area. Earlier claims had no photographic or video evidence. But on Monday evening, some locals posted a video of a tiger, apparently seen in the area. In Santrampur, night-vision cameras had been installed after the residents sounded the first tiger alarm. However, the leopard was caught in the camera in this case.
“Our team rushed to the area and after a thorough investigation it was established that it was a leopard which the locals had filmed,” said Aradhana Sahu, the chief conservator of forests, wildlife division, Vadodara.
In February last year, the forest department had officially confirmed the presence of a tiger in Gujarat, the Asiatic lion’s last abode.
On February 12, six days after a school teacher took a picture of a tiger on his mobile phone, the striped big cat was captured in the morning in the advanced night-vision cameras especially mounted by the forest department. The tiger was also spotted in the Santrampur area. However, the animal was found dead on March 1 and reports had indicated that the tiger, entering from Madhya Pradesh, had died of starvation.
In the recent case, the excitement had further increased when Rajya Sabha member Parimal Nathwani tweeted the video stating “A video has gone viral in the social media wherein people of Santarampur have claimed seeing a tiger near Umber hills. People believe in the presence of the tiger in the mountains. However, Gujarat forest department has not confirmed the presence of tiger in the area.”
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/people-cry-tiger-leopard-emerges/articleshow/76015296.cms
Ahmedabad/Vadodara: Once again, a video purporting to show a tiger in Santrampur, has gone viral. The clip reportedly showed a tiger on the Umber hills in Santrampur taluka in Mahisagar. The clip stirred excitement, galvanizing the officials of the forest department into launching a search. In the end, it was determined that the big cat was a leopard.
Forest officials said this is not the first intimation of a tiger in the area. Earlier claims had no photographic or video evidence. But on Monday evening, some locals posted a video of a tiger, apparently seen in the area. In Santrampur, night-vision cameras had been installed after the residents sounded the first tiger alarm. However, the leopard was caught in the camera in this case.
“Our team rushed to the area and after a thorough investigation it was established that it was a leopard which the locals had filmed,” said Aradhana Sahu, the chief conservator of forests, wildlife division, Vadodara.
In February last year, the forest department had officially confirmed the presence of a tiger in Gujarat, the Asiatic lion’s last abode.
On February 12, six days after a school teacher took a picture of a tiger on his mobile phone, the striped big cat was captured in the morning in the advanced night-vision cameras especially mounted by the forest department. The tiger was also spotted in the Santrampur area. However, the animal was found dead on March 1 and reports had indicated that the tiger, entering from Madhya Pradesh, had died of starvation.
In the recent case, the excitement had further increased when Rajya Sabha member Parimal Nathwani tweeted the video stating “A video has gone viral in the social media wherein people of Santarampur have claimed seeing a tiger near Umber hills. People believe in the presence of the tiger in the mountains. However, Gujarat forest department has not confirmed the presence of tiger in the area.”
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/people-cry-tiger-leopard-emerges/articleshow/76015296.cms
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