Tigress found dead in MP

A four-year-old tigress was found dead near a village in Madhya Pradesh's Balaghat district, an official said today.
A team of personnel from the state forest department spotted the carcass at an agricultural field near Garra village during routine patrolling on Friday evening. They later informed the senior officials about it.
"The carcass of the tigress was found in the forest near Garra village, bordering with Maharashtra," Chief Conservator of Forest (Balaghat) Dhirendra Bhargava said.
"The exact cause of the carnivore's death will be clear only after we get the autopsy report," he said.
Notably, the state witnessed the highest number of feline deaths last year, when it lost 33 big cats.

From 2011 to 2016, as many as 89 tigers, including 11 cubs, died in the state due to various reasons, including poaching, territorial clashes and natural causes, as per data of the MP's forest department.