A team from Madhya Pradesh Forest department would soon reach Satkosia Wildlife Sanctuary to catch the Royal Bengal Tigress 'Sundari', as the Odisha forest department staff is unable to tranquilise the big cat in the wild.
The Odisha government has already deployed three teams to tranquilise the tigress but no positive results have been made so far, so a request was sent to Madhya Pradesh government to capture 'Sundari'.
A senior Forest officer in Madhya Pradesh told that on the request of the Odisha government, two teams of two specialists from the Kanha National Park and Pench Tiger Reserve for the purpose, have been despatched. The two teams are expected to arrive at the Satkosia in a couple of days and start their operation to capture Sundari would commence.
Notably, the Odisha forest department staff is unable to tranquilise 'Sundari' for past two days in the Satkosia Wildlife Sanctuary in Angul district as the tigress slips from the target. According to the latest reports, the tigress was located inside the hill forest at Baghamunda near Kumuri village.
To attract the tigress, the teams on Wednesday night tied a goat near Kumari village and even sprayed the urine of a male tiger. Though the tigress came out, she later ran away to another place.
'Sundari' was relocated from Madhya Pradesh’s Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve to Odisha's Satkosia on June 28, in a pilot inter-state transfer project for re-introduction of the big cats in the area.