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Indian Tiger Park Now Tiger Free

Slashdot: Science - Fetched: July 15th, 2009, 11:30pm EDT

Panna National Park is now officially tiger free making it the second Indian tiger sanctuary to no longer have a tiger population. A census was conducted in the park, after authorities reported no Bengal Tiger sightings for a long time. Three years ago the park had a population of 24 tigers, however none were found this year. Forest minister Rajendra Shukla is optimistic about the news and says, "Panna is our only park which has lost on this count. Three of state's reserve forests - Kanha, Bandhavgarh and Pench - have been adjudged among the best managed tiger reserves in the country."pa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/15/2313231/Indian-Tiger-Park-Now-Tiger-Free?from=rss"img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/07/15/2313231"/a/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/15/2313231/Indian-Tiger-Park-Now-Tiger-Free?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AHqqLtDqY-daK3mtj9MvHEmKGFw/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AHqqLtDqY-daK3mtj9MvHEmKGFw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AHqqLtDqY-daK3mtj9MvHEmKGFw/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AHqqLtDqY-daK3mtj9MvHEmKGFw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/GdJPMEeoFvs" height="1" width="1"/

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