Environment / Tripura

AGARTALA, March 4: The capture of a rare leopard by villagers in Rangamatia village near Sonamura subdivision in West Tripura has taken the wildlife conservation section of the forest department by surprise as there is officially no tiger or leopard population in the forests of Tripura. According to the forest department officials, three Muslim peasants of Rangamatia village Abdul Malek Mia, Aktar Hossain and Shahjahan Bhuiyan spotted the "clouded" leopard while working on their field along the Gomati river in Sonamura subdivision on February 26. They laid a crude trap for the animal and...

AGARTALA, July 16: A Royal Bengal tigress and 40 cheetal deer have died in Sipahijola Sanctuary in West Tripura district in the last two months, sources in Forest department said on Saturday. The tigress died of trypanosomiasis on July 7 last in a zoo of the sanctuary, the sources said, adding that the deer died of an unknown disease. A seven-member doctors, team, led by P Majumdar, on Saturday visited the sanctuary and prescribed some preventive measures to protect the lives of the animals there. The sanctuary now has only one tiger. Twelve tigers died of trypanosomiasis at Nandankanan...