Summary:
more-inDeliverance from pain for Chennur tigress K4 caused by a wire snare cutting into its abdomen could well be near, with the Forest Department coming out with a new strategy to ‘capture’ it. “K4 is currently moving in the proposed restricted area which will strategically be kept free of cattle movement while offering it live bait and chopped meat. K4, as the tigress subsequently came to be known, has been carrying the piece of metal wire ever since and the noose is getting tighter as it is growing bigger. The plan is to contain the injured feline’s movement to a small area of about 14 sq km in Chennur forest in Mancherial district for some time. The recent pictures of K4 on camera trap also show it to be in good health, the ugly scar on its abdomen notwithstanding..