How Nepal Tiger Trust Technicians Helps Identify and Capture Problem Tiger 

23.06.24 03:38 AM By NTT Admin

Reported by Baburam, Raju, and Ashok
NTT Tiger Trackers

    A tiger had entered the Meghauli village and killed five different goats. The Nepal Tiger Trust technicians first responders helped identify the predator and assisted park authorities in capturing and removing the tiger from the area. 




    Identifying and accurately capture a problem tiger is not an easy task. On May 12 and May 13, 2024, at night two goats inside the two different livestock shed was killed in the Meghauli village. In the morning, Nepal Tiger Trust technicians Baburam Mahato, Raju Kumal and Ashok Kumal, investigates the tooth marks on the goats neck and pugmarks of the predator. They determined it was a young female tiger based on the size of the footprints. 






    After a week same tiger enters another village 3 miles away from the Meghauli village and kills 3 more goats on May 19, and 20, 2024. The trackers following the pugmark and drag marks determines that the tiger had entered the agricultural field with maize crops. The camera traps were placed in the maize field. The rapid response team including park rangers, the army and technicians from National Trust for Nature Conservation were informed to capture the tiger. 

    The tiger presence inside the maize field was evident from the drag marks, pugmarks and also tiger photo obtained at night by camera trapping. Using five elephants, long white clothes sheath was laid surrounding the tiger making a visual fences laid out as a funnel. The shooter with immobilized dart gun waits on elephant back at the funnel opening. Using other elephants the tiger is driven toward a marksman who immobilizes the tiger with dart gun on the morning of May 21, 2024.
                        The immobilized tiger was investigated and it was a young female tiger around one year of age. There was a small wound in the hind leg of the tiger, and medicine was applied to the wound and the tiger was taken to Chitwan Park HQ, where treatment and recovery are monitored. This is how Nepal Tiger Trust has been collaborating and assisting park in mitigating human-tiger conflict situations.     

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