The human-tiger conflict is a known phenomenon and has remained as one of the significant conservation issues in many areas.
Intra-species conflict between tigers has emerged as a major conservation issue in recent time, drawing the attention of policy makers. In some parts of the country, tiger-tiger conflict has become a new normal. Tigers usually do not allow other tigers to come into their territory.
Of late, tigers in Chitwan National Park (CNP) have been battling over food and habit resulting in the death of junior tigers. Now, government officials and conservationists need to find creative ways to deal with it. A female tiger was found dead in CNP on Sunday, taking the death toll of big cats in the national park to four in the past two months, according to Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation.
Chief Warden of Chitwan National Park Beb Kumar Dhakal said that big and strong tiger attack weaker ones regarding dispute over food and habitat. “We have found some deadly attacks which have caused the death of weak tigers,” said Dhakal. “It has been found that tigers have died due to neck injury,” said Dhakal. As per the last census, there are altogether 198 tigers in Nepal of which 120 are in the CNP.
