Tigress Avni is believed to have been responsible for the death of 13 persons in Maharashtra.
Nagpur:
The female cub of tigress Avni,who was shot dead after being declared a man-eater in November 2018, has been released into the wild in the Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR) of Maharashtra s Nagpur district after over two years of re-wilding efforts, authorities said.
This adult tigress, now named as PTRF-84, was released on Friday, Chief Conservator ofForests and Field Director of the PTR said in a release.
This female cub of Pandharkawada tigress Avni (PKT-1), was housed in the in-situ enclosure at Titralmangi of the PTR since December 2018. She was reared/re-wilded as per the standard operating procedures (SOPs) of National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), it said.