This story is from March 31, 2020

Bihar: Big cat debuts at Kaimur sanctuary

A fully grown male tiger has been spotted at the Kaimur wildlife sanctuary for the first time.
Bihar: Big cat debuts at Kaimur sanctuary
This is the first confirmed and documented sighting of a big cat in the state outside of the Valmiki Tiger Reserve near the India-Nepal border in West Champaran.
PATNA: A fully grown male tiger has been spotted at the Kaimur wildlife sanctuary for the first time.
This is the first confirmed and documented sighting of a big cat in the state outside of the Valmiki Tiger Reserve near the India-Nepal border in West Champaran. Forest officials spotted the tiger on March 26 using camera traps set inside the sanctuary.
Forest officials said, this is the first authentic sighting of a tiger in the jungles in Rohtas district and evidence have been found of this tiger covering more than 150km to come from Madhya Pradesh.

"A big male tiger was spotted through camera traps in Kaimur wildlife sanctuary of Rohtas forest division March 26," forest department's principal secretary Dipak Kumar Singh, said. The department had been getting indications of the presence of a tiger in the Kaimur Wildlife Sanctuary for the past four months.
Dipak added, "This tiger has been on the radar of the department since its first encounter with tiger-trackers of the department on November 4, 2019. Since then the team has been tracking its movements by tracing pug-marks and its excreta. It even made a cattle kill on November 2 last year in Bhurkura village. Excreta sample of this individual tiger was collected in December and sent to Wildlife Institute of India for determination of the source population, from where it has come."

The principal secretary said that preliminary results indicate that it is an old male tiger, which has lost it's territory somewhere in Bandhavgarh - Sanjay Dhubri - Panna Tiger Reserve Complex of Madhya Pradesh and has taken refuge in Kaimur.
"This could lead to the confirmation of a possible tiger corridor existing between these two protected wildlife areas, passing through the tri-state border of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar in Sidhi, Singrauli, Sonbhadra and Kaimur districts," Dipak said.
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