Udhagamandalam: Two Kumkis from the Elephant ThakPadu camp at the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) and three dog squads again on Sunday joining ongoing operations to capture troubled tigers in nilgiris.
The mission to capture / highlight large cats continues for the ninth day on Sundays.
At the beginning of the operation, the implementation of Pugmark’s tracking was carried out in the range of Masinagudi forests but in vain.
The Nilgiris and Wayanad team other than STF personnel, in all consisting of 150 personnel, divided into three groups and search operations were held, according to a forest officer.
In addition to a sniffer dog, the original type of ‘sippipine’ from the Gudalur Division, three more sniffer dogs, jade, a sniffer dog from Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve, shutter, a slut dog from Karnataka and others from Kerala brought to the location.
Every sniffer dog is accompanied by each coach when in the search operation.
While the Srinivasan kumki arrived at the location in Masinagudi ranging in the morning, Kumki Udhayan won in the afternoon.
Two drones are also used in preliminary operations.
“There are no signs of a troubled tiger movement found in any method.
No tiger images found either in 15 cameras installed inside and around the preliminary operation area,” said a forest official.
He added, “Search operations will be continued on Monday”.
Local wildlife activists and angered forest officials on pills submitted before Madras High Court challenged the order of the forest department to hunt for tigers.
Animal activists based above and people based in Chennai for livestock in India have transferred Madras High Court in this relationship.
An activist said, “The applicant does not have the position of the locus in an ongoing scientific operation to capture the tigers that killed three people and 10 livestock heads in the past two and a half months”.
A senior forest officer said, “Search operations are done scientifically according to the guidelines for the National Tiger Conservation Authority.
Hunting orders are released only to intensify the operation only after the third murder by the tiger occurs.”
Tamil Nadu: Two Elephants Kumki, 3 Dog Team Join Hunting Tiger in Masinagudi
