If everything goes as per the plan, two tigresses from Chandrapur will soon be shifted to Navegaon Nagzira Tiger Reserve (NNTR) in the Bhandara and Gondia districts of Maharashtra. This will be the first conservation translocation of tigers from the state.

Sunil Limaye, Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (PCCF)-Wildlife, said, “On Monday an important meeting took place between forest department officials and senior scientist Bilal Habib of Wildlife Institute of India (WII) where the plan of shifting tigers from Chandrapur to NNTR was discussed in detail. Initially, two tigresses from Chandrapur would be shifted to NNTR in a month and fortnight.”