BENGALURU: Villagers surrounding Mysore Airport have been placed on alert by forest officers of Mysore Division after a tiger was caught on digital camera within the airport premises on January 5 and has crossed over to close by villages from the Airport premises. As a precautionary measure, forest officers have warned villagers from venturing out after nightfall and likewise not to concentrate to rumours being unfold over the presence of a tiger of their neighborhood.
The Mysore Airport is about 8-km from Mysore metropolis on Mysore-Ooty street. Sources instructed Deccan Chronicle on Wednesday “The tiger which strayed to the Airport, a few days again, is perhaps a sibling of a tiger killed in a street accident close to the airport on January 29, 2024.” The tiger was knocked down by a dashing automobile going in the direction of Nanjangud when the animal met with an accident.
In the meantime, forest officers gathered clues over the tiger and got here throughout the tiger leaping the barbed wire fence of the airport to close by villages/fields. Whereas taking a leap, the tiger has injured itself and forest personnel engaged in combing operation on the airport seen blood stains and its guard hairs/underfur of the animal.
Mysore Division Deputy Conservator of Forest (DCF) Okay. Paramesh stated the personnel connected to Mysore Division and Leopard Process Pressure have been engaged in combing operation and got here throughout pug marks of the tiger about 1.5 km away from the Mysore Airport. Nonetheless, forest officers pressed into motion thermal drones to catch tiger motion, if any, however didn’t come throughout any.
As a precautionary measure, a walkthrough cage has been positioned within the airport premises to entice the tiger. Apart from, tamed elephants-Prashanth, Ranjan, Harsha and Sugreeva, adept in tiger seize operations, have been stored prepared.
Whereas a historian and a researcher stated “There was a steady stretch of forest connecting Chamundi Hill close to Mysuru metropolis to forest borders of Bandipur Tiger Reserve, about 50-km however over the time, fragmentation of forests reduce off the hyperlink. Now, tigers appear to have made a comeback to their previous territory.”
However, forest officers observe that the outskirts of Mysuru metropolis provide loads of wild boars for the tiger to prey upon and has been a contributing issue for tigers to take refuge in villages near Mysuru metropolis.
