Guwahati: Following the brutal killing of an adult Royal Bengal tiger by a mob in Golaghat district, officials announced on Sunday that two additional tiger carcasses-a cub and a full-grown adult-were discovered within Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve (KNPTR) over the past two days. This incident raises the total number of reported tiger deaths in Assam this year to five, raising alarm among conservationists.
On Sunday morning, forest staff found the carcass of a tiger cub in the Burhapahar range of Kaziranga (Nagaon district). The decomposed remains of an adult tiger were uncovered a day earlier in a wooded area of the Kohora range in Golaghat district. Arun Vignesh, the divisional forest officer of Eastern Assam wildlife division, stated that a postmortem was conducted before the carcass was cremated. “According to doctors, the tiger found in Kohora likely died around ten days ago. As its body parts were intact, preliminary investigations suggest a natural death,” Vignesh said, noting that final confirmation will await the detailed postmortem report. Due to decomposition, the sex of this tiger could not be determined.
In the second case concerning the tiger cub, the postmortem was performed at the discovery site. “It appears that the cub’s death resulted from injuries inflicted during an attack by another tiger, likely due to internal conflict,” the DFO remarked, with initial findings indicating that the cub was a 12-month-old male. Following examination, the carcass was also cremated.
Kaziranga is reported to be home to approximately 104 tigers, per the last All India Tiger Estimation conducted in 2022. These recent tragedies follow a mob killing of a Royal Bengal tiger in Khumtai (Golaghat district) just last week. Before these three incidents, two other tiger carcasses had already been located this year-one in Orang National Park and another in the Biswanath Wildlife Division-heightening concerns regarding tiger conservation in the region. The Royal Bengal tiger is categorized as “endangered” on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of threatened species and is protected under India’s Wildlife Protection Act of 1972.
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Publish Date: 2025-05-26 04:02:00
