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The wood section has acceptable up 20 camera traps astir the tract wherever a pistillate was attacked and killed by a carnivore successful the buffer portion of the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) connected Monday (November 24, 2025).
The 70-year-old unfortunate B. Nagi from Mavanallah was herding goats adjacent the Mavanallah River erstwhile she was attacked, wood section officials said. Preliminary investigations person led them to judge that the onslaught could person been accidental. “We judge the unfortunate had been crouching adjacent the stream, wherever the carnal was hiding wrong a bamboo thicket erstwhile she was attacked. The carnal could person been stalking the goats and could person mistaken the unfortunate for livestock arsenic she was crouching,” said a wood section authoritative investigating the incident.
The wood section has besides lifted hairsbreadth samples from the country of the onslaught to verify the carnal that attacked the unfortunate was a tiger, and not different carnivore specified arsenic a leopard. Meanwhile, thermal drones person besides been deployed to way the question of wildlife successful the areas.
When contacted, M.G. Ganesan, Deputy Director of MTR, told The Hindu the wood section would cheque camera traps placed astatine the tract of the incidental connected Tuesday (November 25, 2025) evening to place the beingness of immoderate tigers and different carnivores. “Only aft this is done, and erstwhile we cheque if the carnal is successful the wood department’s database, tin we recognize if the carnal is aged oregon if its injured,” said Mr. Ganesan.
He added the wood section has besides directed residents to not task adjacent to the boundaries of the wood areas and to not graze their livestock adjacent wood boundaries for the adjacent 1 period to debar chances of immoderate much antagonistic encounters.
