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Guwahati
A 3rd tiger was recovered dormant successful Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve wrong a fortnight, arsenic wood unit recovered the carcass of a pistillate tiger connected Sunday (January 18, 2026), hours aft Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the instauration stone for an 86-km elevated wildlife corridor astatine Kaliabor, adjacent to the park.
Preliminary findings from the post-mortem indicated that the tigress died pursuing infighting successful the Kathpora country of the park’s Bagori Range, wildlife officials said connected Monday (January 19, 2026).
“The park’s manager formed a committee to dispose of the carcass according to the modular operating process of the National Tiger Conservation Authority,” a parkland authoritative said.
According to the officials, the archetypal decease was reported connected January 4, erstwhile wood guards recovered the carcass of a pistillate tiger successful the Paschim Bimoli country of the Bagori Range.
The 2nd carcass, that of a antheral tiger estimated to person been 3 years old, was recovered successful the Gamiri Range nether the park’s Biswanath Wildlife Division. Veterinarians said the decease could person been earthy oregon owed to infighting.
Wildlife experts said infighting among tigers is simply a earthy improvement and usually occurs erstwhile territories overlap oregon resources go scarce. However, they noted that prey availability is not a interest astatine Kaziranga, which has a precocious diverseness and abundance of prey species.
“As the tiger colonisation successful Kaziranga is astatine its maximum precocious limit, infighting whitethorn beryllium influenced by the carnivore’s inability to determination retired and settee beyond the halfway country (430 sq. km) of the park,” said M. Firoz Ahmed, a tiger specializer astatine biodiversity conservation organisation Aaranyak.
He said that the adjoining landscapes of Karbi Anglong territory could perchance accommodate immoderate tigers, adding that the prey density is, however, debased successful the landscape.
“If immoderate habitats wrong the Kaziranga landscape, specified arsenic Laokhowa and Burhachapori, are developed, a fewer tigers whitethorn beryllium capable to determination retired of the halfway country and found territories elsewhere. It is important that some tiger and prey populations are managed scientifically wrong halfway areas for semipermanent conservation of taxon and to amended co-existence with people,” Mr. Ahmed said.
According to the 2024 tiger census, Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve had an estimated 148 tigers, up from 104 successful 2022. This translates to a density of 18 tigers per 100 sq. km, the world’s third-highest successful presumption of tiger density.
