The Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF), a wildlife conservation and research organisation, has stressed the need for creating inviolate wildlife areas.
The NCF said in a release that the recent capture of a tiger, which had attacked and partially eaten a woman, in Bommalapurahaadi in H.D. Kote taluk makes a case for preserving critical wildlife habitats.
The NCF release said that the tiger was previously captured on camera twice at Kal-hebballa and Yeradane mori on December 6, 2009 and December 17, 2009 respectively during a study by Conservation Biologist and Member of the State Board for Wildlife Sanjay Gubbi and others. The team was researching on the far reaching impact of vehicular traffic on wildlife on the Mysore-Mananthavadi highway in the southern part of the Nagarahole Tiger Reserve.
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“The tiger seemed to be a large, healthy male in its prime when it was camera trapped in 2009. Large males like this tiger need uninterrupted home ranges to enable their survival, hence avoiding highly disastrous highways in tiger reserves is of prime importance”, according to the NCF.