T-12 is Sariska tigress’ new mate
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A young male tiger was added to the family tree of big cats in Sariska Tiger Sanctuary on Tuesday. This is the fourth tiger to have been relocated to Sariska to populate the sanctuary where the original clan was completely wiped out my merciless poachers a few years ago.
The tiger – T-12 – was captured and tranquilised in Ranthambhore before it majestically rode to Sariska in armed escort by road. This is the first time that a tiger had to travel by road instead of the aerial route that its predecessors had taken to reach their new home in Sariska. Both, the Union minister of forest, Jairam Ramesh and the forest minister in Rajasthan, Ramlal Jat were at Sariska when the tiger was brought home.
Jat said that the tiger was safely released in the jungles of Sariska at around 8 pm. “With the latest relocation, Sariska’s tiger population has reached four; we now have three males and a female tiger in the sanctuary,” Jat said.
The minister said that a female tiger will be shifted from Ranthambhore to Sariska, possibly within this week. “We have permission to shift five tigers from Ranthambhore National Park; we have identified another tigress which will be brought to Sariska soon,” he said
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