India: Driver held at Jim Corbett National Park after tiger charges at tourists
Gypsy driver arrested
A tourist vehicledriver in Uttarakhand's Jim Corbett National Park was recently detained for reportedly provoking a tiger after a video of the wild cat charging at a tourist vehicle was widely circulated on social media.
The incident happened early on Wednesday morning (April 27), close to Jim Corbett National Park. The tiger is seen in the video storming towards the tourist vehicle after emerging from the bushesand growling aggressively at the tourists.
The driver of the gypsy was detained on Friday (April 29)for provoking the wild cat, according to Indian Forest Service (IFS) official Susanta Nanda. According to the forest official's tweet, he has been arrested under the Wildlife Protection Act.
As seen in the video, the tigerhides out off the road behind some bushesand appears irritated. One of the tourists can be heard screaming at the tiger in the background. The visitors and the car remain stationary as they use their cameras to photograph the tiger.
WATCH |Uttarakhand: Driver accused of provoking a tiger in Jim Corbett National Park
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The tiger then leaps out from under the bushes and moves towards the car. Immediately after, the tourists panic andthe car begins to move backward. But the enraged tiger starts pursuing the gypsy.
The tiger finally stops growling at the end of the video and retreats into the forest.
More than 88,000 people had watched the video and hundreds had commented on it. Many users expressed their rage at tourists for disobeying the law while visiting national parks and wildlife sanctuaries.
"Sensitising the visitors about habits and habitats of animals is very important as we have less space for wildlife and more people are entering their space. Nature guides have a very important role in this," wrote one user. "The safari numbers needs to be curtailed - daily basis and also some weeks of no safari," said another.
Another usercommented, “Honestly in Jim Corbett, the drivers flout a lot of the rules. I have seen people giving the drivers extra money to take their gypsies deeper into the forest to increase the chances of sighting a tiger, or sometimes even carrying meat or flesh with them to attract the felines.”
Can humans and tigers coexist?
Five villages of the Valmiki Tiger Reserve in West Champaran district of Bihar, according to PTI reports, were to be converted into a model human-carnivore coexistence zone, with the state government collaboratingwith the Wildlife Trust of India, a Nepalese organisation and a UK-based zoo for the project.
As per officials who spoke to PTI, the three-year project was planned to take shapein 2023.
The Valmiki Tiger Reserve madeheadlines in 2022 afterthe shooting deathof a man-eating tiger in October that had previously killed nine humans and numerous domesticanimals.
According toP K Gupta, Bihar's Chief Wildlife Warden,the reserve is essential to ensuring that tiger populations are genetically healthy.
Wildlife specialists claim that tigers and other large creatures frequently use the forest corridors that connect India and Nepal.
Therefore, according to the National Tiger Conservation Authority's instructions, the state government has implemented a number of steps to safeguard the habitats of big cats and maintain their population, Gupta added.
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