Zeenat gets close to Bengal’s tourist destination, foresters on tenterhooks
The Statesman | 30 December 2024
Foresters claimed that they have managed to isolate Zeenat – the three-year-old tigress from Odisha’s Simlipal National Park – in a wooded area near Bangopalpur Reserve Forest in West Bengal’s Bankura district.
Forest department teams comprise experts from Odisha and the Sundarbans Tiger Reserve. Over the last few days, nylon nets have been used to confine Zeenat and trap cages laid out with game inside, to lure her. The tigress, clearly in very good shape, refused to fall into the trap and on one occasion, leapt across a net and escaped.