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A tigress that had been eluding the authorities of Pench Reserve successful Madhya Pradesh's Seoni for the past 24 days was captured and successfully airlifted to Rajasthan for relocation successful an Indian Air Force MI-17 chopper connected Sunday (December 21, 2025), officials said.
The large feline was surrounded by elephants respective times from greeting to afternoon, earlier being tranquillised and brought to Sukatra airstrip successful Seoni successful a rescue vehicle, an authoritative said.
The Indian Air Force MI-17 chopper airlifted the tigress, on with the cage, to Rajasthan's Vishdhari Tiger Reserve astatine astir 6 p.m., helium said.
Pench Tiger Reserve wildlife veterinarian Dr Akhilesh Mishra, adjunct manager Gurleen Kaur, Rukhad ranger Lokesh Pawar, WCT wildlife veterinarian Dr Prashant Deshmukh, wood officials from Rajasthan, and a squad of experts were connected committee the chopper to guarantee the three-year-old tigress' harmless journey, the authoritative said.
Forest officials and veterinarians acceptable a vigor collar and cod samples from a tranquilised tiger during the country's archetypal inter-state tiger translocation operation, successful Seoni, Madhya Pradesh | Photo Credit: PTI
"Pench tigress PN-224 was captured from the chaotic and airlifted from Sukatra airstrip to Rajasthan. This relocation volition not lone summation the tiger colonisation successful Ramgarh Vishdhari Tiger Reserve but volition besides assistance fortify familial diverseness among antithetic tiger landscapes. This cognition is an fantabulous illustration of technological wildlife absorption and method prowess," Pench Tiger Reserve lawman manager Rajneesh Singh said.
"India has achieved different large occurrence successful wildlife conservation and inter-state coordination. The astir important facet of this full cognition was the harmless transport of the tigress to her caller location via an Indian Air Force MI-17 helicopter. This relocation cognition was conducted systematically and scientifically for the past month," Singh informed.
The authorities astatine Pench Tiger Reserve utilised modern AI-based camera traps and question sensor cameras to place and show the tigress's movements, with astir 50 cameras acceptable up successful the country to accurately show the large cat's wellness and behaviour, the authoritative said.
The palmy cognition was facilitated by the unsocial coordination betwixt the Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan Forest Departments, with Rajasthan's Chief Conservator of Forests, Suganaram Jat, and veterinarian Dr Tejinder camping successful Pench for the past 8 days.
The full process was completed nether the guidance of Pench Tiger Reserve tract manager Devprasad J and lawman manager Rajneesh Kumar Singh, officials said.
The analyzable process of tranquillising the tigress was carried retired nether the enactment of Dr Akhilesh Mishra and Dr Prashant Deshmukh (Wildlife Conservation Trust), with the assistance of experts from Jabalpur Veterinary College and tract biologists, they said, adding that adjunct manager Gurleen Kaur led the ngo during the transfer.
The publication of tract unit from the Kurai and Rukhad ranges of Pench was important to the occurrence of this mission, arsenic they patrolled regular from 6 americium to 6 p.m. to show the tigress' movement, they said.
