Over 200 people and two Indian Air Force helicopters were pressed into service to control a wildfire spread over 10 sq km of the Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan's Alwar, officials said on Tuesday.
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After a political tug of war on poaching, Rajasthan government has permitted Central Bureau of Investigation to probe the disappearance of tigers in the Sariska sanctuary since October last year.
The birth of four cubs in Madhya Pradesh's Panna National Park under the government's tiger revival project has brought the Sariska sanctuary in Rajasthan in focus where "sibling factor" is said to have hit the breeding programme initiated two years ago.
According to a survey by wildlife experts there has been no tiger sighting in the Sariska Wildlife Sanctuary since June 2004.
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"Both the Central and State governments have failed in saving the animal. Yet it appears to be a mystery. No bullet wound (was found)... I think there is a very preponderant possibility of poisoning," Ramesh said as he visited the sanctuary amidst the controversy over the government's tiger revival plan.
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It is being admitted that there are no tigers left in Sariska.
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Mehtrotra also said the fresh tiger census at the Sariska was completed last week but the findings are yet to be released by the state government.\n
a new census was carried out by the government-run Wildlife Institute of India using a more scientifically robust method and preliminary results of the new count have put the population at between 1,300 and 1,500.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered four cases against some people in connection with the poaching of tigers in the Sariska tiger reserve.
"Gross administrative interference" by Forests Minister Laxmi Narayan Dave in administrative functioning of the forest department left the area covered under Project Tiger open to poachers.
Under the instructions of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the CBI had probed the disappearance of tigers from Sariska, which revealed that Chand was the man primarily responsible.\n
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