In what is being seen as an encouraging sign for wildlife enthusiasts and forest department staff engaged in tiger conservation at the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve in western Maharashtra, male tiger STR-T1 (Senapati) and tigress STR-T4 (Chanda) have reportedly been moving together in the landscape.

With the aim of restoring the tiger population in the Sahyadri landscape, the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve (STR), in collaboration with the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun, and the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), launched the Tiger Recovery Project in 2017. The objective of the project is to establish an optimal, free-ranging tiger population in the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve by 2027 and strengthen ecological integrity in the region.