Many people in Palamu or in Jharkhand may not be knowing that tigers in tiger reserve Palamu are of Royal Bengal species. DFO Core of the PTR Anil Kumar Mishra said very emphatically on Wednesday July 27 “Our tigers are Royal Bengal ones”. There should not be any confusion in this regard, he reiterated.
On International Tiger Day going to be celebrated this July 29 the PTR officials have prepared a pamphlet in Hindi which will reach to the public on Thursday July 28 and Friday July 29 the tiger day.
Mishra said there used to be eight sub species of tigers but now three sub species have gone extinct and three others are facing extreme peril. Our Royal Bengal tiger in Palamu is as precious and vulnerable as any other tiger in the world.
Features of our tiger are different from other tigers like size, length, body built face outlines etc.On being asked as to why a common man who has not seen any tiger in the jungle or who spends a few hundred rupees, finds leisure time for himself and his family visits national park Betla with the sole hop of coming across the big cat but returns sighting farmers’ cows and buffaloes grazing right inside the tiger reserve and aimless langurs and monkeys jumping from one branch to the other DFO Core said, ‘tigers are very essential for forest to live on besides it in a way help in climate change as forests having no tiger are more prone to human invasion than others and in eco system the tiger retains its top position’. PNS