Tigers in danger

A larmed at the spate of tiger deaths in kaziranga and kanha tiger reserves and kanha tiger reserves in the last three months,the Environment Ministry has directed the wildlife Crime Control Bureau to probe into the possible role of organized gangs in the killings.This is for the first time that the WCCB has been entrusted with such a sensitive task.Two teams of the investigating agency have been deputed to the two reserved on Assam and Madhya Pradesh to enquire into the mysterious deaths and possible links with the poachers and probe whether a gang of poachers was involved in the crime.The State governments are just trying to brush the matter under the carpet,the ministry feels,"sources in the Environment Ministry told PTI.The WCCB say the State government's theory that the deaths were natural or tigers had died because of fighting with another predator cannot be possible as the toll since November last year had climbed to 10 in the Kaziranga parks and seven in the kanha sanctuary.