Big cat collar beeps at Manas

  • 15/01/2011

  • Telegraph (North East)

- Translocated tiger located after eight months; forest official attacked at Islampur Forest officials heaved sigh of relief when a Royal Bengal tiger, captured in Sivasagar district after being embroiled in man-animal conflict and released at Manas National Park after being fitted with a radio collar about eight months ago, was located a couple of days back. This was the first tiger in the state to have been fitted with a radio collar. The radio collar was fitted by the International Fund for Animal Welfare-Wildlife Trust of India (IFAW-WTI).