Bhopal: As part of the drive to translocate various animals from one habitat to other, four black bucks from Seoni district in Madhya Pradesh were shifted successfully to Kanha Tiger Reserve in Mandla, for reviving their population in the national park.
Four black bucks were caught from near bamboo bushes and agriculture fields situated in the village Karirat under Seoni forest area yesterday and shifted to Kanha Tiger Reserve where they were released in a special wired enclosure by a team of experts, forest officials said today. A 14-member team from Andhra Pradesh has specially arrived in Seoni district for carrying out the translocation of black bucks. Besides, senior forest officials, veterinarians and other field staff were also present during the exercise.
Two males and as many female black bucks were caught and shifted to Kanha for reintroducing them in the Kanha National Park from where they almost extinct in the year 2003.
The forest officials have planned to shift a total of 50 black bucks in Kanha forest ranges and once all of them arrive in the park they would be gradually released in the wild. Besides successfully translocating tigers to Panna National Park which was in news for their total disappearance allegedly due to poaching, the department has also translocated bison from Kanha to Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve.
PTI