Nagpur: With the Gorewada Rescue Center (GRC) run out of space to accommodate tigers and leopards saved, the forest development company Maharashtra (FDCM) plans to expand its capacity by adding 20 more cages.
At present, there are 10 attachments for tigers and 20 for leopards in the rescue center.
However, this capacity has run out.
According to sources, the Department of Public Works (PWD) is in the process of settlement of estimates for the project.
Speaking with Toi, Divisional Manager Pramod Panchbhai said, “Last month, we have asked PWD to prepare estimates.
This project will cost more than RS8-10 Crore and 50:50 funds will be searched under campa and state plans.” This is Jalan Tightrope for the rescue central government to accommodate additional animals, especially tigers and leopards.
The center has 10 tiger cages, but 12 tigers.
Because there is no room at Gorewada, one tiger from Pandharkda is placed in a transit treatment center (TTC), Seminary Hills.
“Given the conflicts of human-blazing animals in Vidarbha, there is a possibility that more individual tigers and leopard problems brought to the center cannot be ruled out,” said the Kundan Wildlife Council board.
There are 25 leopard problems, but only 20 attachments in the middle.
Of the two tigers surplus, someone has been installed in the hospital while others will be accommodated at home to monkeys.
The monkey has shifted in a small mammalian cage because there are no small mammals until now in the middle.
According to the list submitted to the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) for the past seven years from April 2015 to July 2021, the rescue center received 20 tigers from the region – 8 men and 12 women.
Of this number, five tigers – three women and two men – dumped while three died during treatment.
Likewise, in the same period, the center receives 41 leopards – 16 men and 25 women.
From this, eight – five women and three men – dumped while 12 died during treatment.
Again, the human-animal conflict has blazed in Vidarbha and at least 28 villagers, most of whom ventured into the forest, have died in Tiger or Leopard attacks in the past seven months.
The number of deaths during the same period has risen to 26 in the state.
The number of large cat surpluses in the rescue center is swelling even though two tigers and seven leopards are released at Balasaheb Thackeray International Zoological Park for Safari and three sent to Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), Mumbai.
To overcome crowding and also for pair, Tiger NT-1 three-year-old men who were arrested from Talodhi shifted to the Maharajbagh Zoo last August.
“The city zoo then looks for Tigress from Gorewada for breeding purposes,” Panchbhai said.