sindewahi forest range

With mercury rising, the man-animal conflict in rural areas of the district too is on the rise. Two people were killed in different incidents of predator attack in Sindewahi range on Tuesday.

A beheaded and skinned carcass of an animal, suspected to be that of a tiger, was found in sindewahi forest range.

Yet another tiger was found dead, this time in the area under sindewahi forest range, on Sunday evening. Sources claimed that decomposed body of tiger was recovered from a farm near Alesur village near Navargaon. As it was late in the evening till forest officers reached the spot, post mortem has been scheduled for Monday.

The National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, has said that the large number of monkey deaths on June 5 in the forest area of Sindewahi in Chandrapur district were not due to any virus.

The forest department has cited lack of water and intense summer heat to be the cause behind the death of monkeys in huge numbers from the forest around Chitki village in Sindewahi tehsil.

Two members of a family were killed in a tiger attack in Maharashtra's Chandrapur district on Tuesday morning, a senior forest official said.

A sub-adult leopard, that had taken shelter in an unused house in village Kotha (Murmali) under sindewahi forest range, was rescued after a nine-hour long operation. The leopard has been moved to the transit treatment centre in Chandrapur. Sources said that the leopard had been roaming around the village since the last few days in search of easy prey. The beast took shelter in a dilapidated house in the night.

Foresters of Sindewahi range nabbed a couple of treasure hunters and seized valuable tiger parts, including nails, bones, canines and whiskers, late on Monday night. The accused had removed the tiger parts from the carcass of a sub-adult tiger cub in the forest under Sindewahi range to perform occult rituals to find hidden treasure.