40 camera traps have been set up by the forest authorities around the Pedda Gummadapuram village of Andhra Pradesh to trace a tigress so she may be reunited with her cubs.
“Two of them growled when we tried to approach them. But then we shifted them into small baskets and took them to a private godown,” said a resident of the village.
Later, the forest authorities arrived at the spot and shifted them to the Bairluty government veterinary hospital. Now, efforts to trace the mother tigress and reunite her with the cubs is on.
“We will wait for a few days to trace, we will take a call after the chief wildlife warden takes a final decision on whether the cubs would be released back into the wild or transferred to a zoo,” the DFO said.
The re-wilding process — the imparting of the skills the cubs would need to survive there — should be carried out for at least two years, said another senior forest official.