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Inter-state Tiger Relocation Project
March 28 , 2021
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- Sundari - a tigress, shifted as part of India’s first inter-state translocation project in 2018 from Madhya Pradesh to Odisha, returned home recently.
- The five-year-old tigress spent 28 months in captivity in Satkosia Tiger Reserve, Odisha.
Tiger Relocation Project:
- The tiger relocation project was initiated in 2018.
- A male (Mahavir) from Kanha Tiger Reserve and a female (Sundari) from Bandhavgarh from Madhya Pradesh were relocated to Satkosia Tiger Reserve in Odisha, to shore up the tiger population in the state.
- Sundari was brought to Satkosia a week after Mahavir’s arrival.
- The relocation was meant to serve two purposes,
- reducing tiger population in areas with excess tigers to majorly reduce territorial disputes,
- to reintroduce tigers in areas where the population has considerably reduced due to various reasons.
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