An atiger that was caught on camera in the Bonai Division of Sundargarh’s Toda Reserve Forest is said to have travelled more than a thousand kilometres to claim its new home.
The big cat has moved from Madhya Pradesh’s Sanjay Dubri Tiger Reserve to Toda Reserve Forest, according to sources with the Forest Department. It travelled through three tiger sanctuaries and corridors in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh on its route to Odisha.
The Bonai DFO was the one who initially notified us about the tiger’s camera tracking.
Despite spending a year in the Toda Reserve Forest, it has eluded camera capture. According to reports, the NTCA Tiger cell verified its existence after setting up a camera trap.
“We are happy to report that, nearly two decades later, a single tiger was caught on camera in the Sundergarh district. The NTCA’s Tiger cell verified that it had moved out of Sanjay Dubri TR. Had to have travelled several hundred miles to establish its new home in Odisha. Welcome to the PCCF (Wildlife) social media platform, Susant Nanda wrote in a post on X (SIC).
PCCF (Wildlife) Susant Nanda stated, “We had signs of its presence,” when providing information about the tiger. However, we are only persuaded that it has left the Central Indian landscape after it was captured on camera and verified by the NTCA’s tiger cell. It must have travelled more than a thousand kilometres by foot because it visited so many places. However, there are 570 kilometres in air between Sanjay Dubri TR’s current location and its previous one. It has travelled more than a thousand kilometres to arrive here and claim a new area.
Subsequently, the PCCF shared another post on his X handle later that day, informing that two cubs—one melanistic and the other normal—and their mother, a female melanistic leopard, had been spotted in the Central Odisha forests. In addition, he posted four images of the large cats.
