After a two-year-long wait, a six-year-old Tiger tagged as ST-12 gave birth to triplets at the Sariska Tiger Reserve, taking the population up to 20 tigers.?
According to a TOI?report, ST-12 is now a mother of six cubs born in a gap of two years and she has set a record after all her cubs survived.?
Chief Minister of Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot posted a tweet writing,?¡°Amid Corona concern, tigress ST-12 gives good news. Three new cubs have been camera trapped in Sariska Tiger Reserve. Now there are 20 tigers in the year 2020 in #Sariska. My wish is to see the wildlife thrives in the state."
In March 2020, Sariska Tigress ST-10 and her cub were spotted in the Talvriksh range. STR now has 20 big cats, of which 11 are female, 5 male and rest cubs.??
In 2018, the tigress set a record after giving birth to triplets in the reserve. According to a senior forest official the tigress is said to have mated with ST-13.?
Now, more than a quarter of the tiger population is attributed to ST-12 and her cubs. The cubs with their mother were recently captured by a camera that was set up near a?water body in Taalvraksh range of STR.?
¡°This year has been good for the Reserve as five tigers ¨C three cubs of ST-12 and two of ST-14 became adults while four cubs have been born,¡± STR Field Director, Ghanshyam Prasad Sharma told HT.?
He also said that after a long time, two tigers ST-18 (son of ST-14) and ST-19 (daughter of ST-12) have started moving in the buffer zone.??
National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) member and BJP MP Diya Kumari also tweeted: ¡°Amid #CoronaOutbreak, Delighted to hear that Tigress ST-12 has given birth to 3 cubs at Sariska Tiger Reserve. May the?wildlife thrive in the state (sic).¡±
The Sarika reserve has been infamous for poaching but the birth of tigers has heralded a new history for the reserve and officials have now pinned their hopes on the reserve for conserving tiger population.?
On March 30th, another Tigress named S-10 was spotted with her cub near the? Taalvraksh range of STR. Indian Forest Officer (IFS) Parveen Kaswan recently took to Twitter and shared the news about S-10's cub writing,"You need good news amid #Covid-19. She is #Tigress ST-10 & she has given birth to a cub, who is spotted playing happily with her at Sariska. It is special because Sariska once lost all its tigers. A special project was launched & see a sight which makes conservationists smile."
Kaswan explained about the collar attached on the Tigress' neck saying, "People are asking about the belt in the neck. That is a radio collar for tracking an animal that is under special observation. Through radio telemetry the tiger is tracked & observed for protection as well as study. You can see antenna as well as radio collar in the pic. My archive," he wrote.