the state tomorrow, as a part of efforts to revive the tiger
population there, a top forest official said.
"A six-year old tigress will be brought to the park from Kanha Tiger
Reserve to Panna tomorrow by road ," Tiger Reserve's Field Director R
S Murthy said.
The distance between Kanha and Panna - both situated in eastern Madhya
Pradesh - is around 450 km.
Two tigresses and a tiger had already been translocated to the Panna
reserve, spread over an area of 543 sq km in Panna and Chhatarpur
districts.
A tigress from Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve was brought in March 2009 and
another feline was translocated from Kanha in the same month.
Thereafter, a tiger was brought from Pench Tiger Reserve. The two
translocated tigresses gave birth to cubs last year, officials said,
adding that five cubs had been spotted so far.
Panna Tiger Reserve, which once had more than 35 tigers, had become
devoid of the big cat, allegedly due to poaching, by 2009.
According to the revival plan, in all four tigresses and two tigers
will be shifted to Panna, officials said.
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