Buxa tiger recovery: a release within a longer ecological programme

GS 3: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation; Science and Technology—developments and their applications and effects in everyday life.

A tigress from Valmiki Tiger Reserve was released at Buxa on 2 October. The project predates this release, and future augmentation depends on ecological readiness and expert advice; a release is distinct from establishment of a viable breeding population. [1]