Video Of Tiger Cub With Plastic Bottle In Maharashtra Shows How Irresponsible We Have Become
More and more animals, birds, and other creatures are getting exposed to plastic waste every day, even inside the protected areas. Yet another sad image has surfaced, this time from Alizanza, a tourism zone in the buffer of the popular Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) in Maharashtra.
Plastic is everywhere, quite literally, from the most remote forests to the depths of oceans have all been polluted by plastic, all thanks to us, humans.
The thoughtless act of throwing away plastic waste anywhere and everywhere has a devastating impact on the ecology.
More and more animals, birds, and other creatures are getting exposed to plastic waste every day, even inside the protected areas.
Yet another sad image has surfaced, this time from Alizanza, a tourism zone in the buffer of the popular Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) in Maharashtra.
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Earlier this week a video was posted online showing a tigress cub picking up a plastic bottle.
The video was shot by some tourists showed the tigress cub picking up the plastic bottle and chewing it before walking away with it.
#Nagpur : A video of a tigress cub picking up a plastic bottle in #Alizanza , a tourism zone in the buffer of the popular Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR), went viral. It has sparked serious concern over emerging threat to wildlife. @ErikSolheim pic.twitter.com/rqgsZTFKN8
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While the tourists were busy clicking photos and video of the tiger, someone can be heard in the background saying "tiger doing the cleaning job".
According to a 2020 estimate, there are around 115 tigers in Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve core and buffer areas.
The video was shot in a buffer zone which sees a high human activity.
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In December, there was a similar incident when some tourists spotted three cups of one of the resident females, Junabai was seen playing with a plastic bag, deep inside the forest.
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This, however is not a problem that is limited to TATR or Maharashtra.
In the past few years, several such disturbing imaged have emerged from various forests and protected areas showing animals including elephants, deer, and monkeys feeding on plastic waste.
Bobins Abraham is the Assistant News Editor at Indiatimes. He has more than twelve years of experience in TV and digital journalism. An avid student of history and geopolitics, he is a conservationist and environmentalist at heart. He writes on environment, sustainability, human-animal conflict and more.
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