Anthrax scare has returned to haunt tiger reserves in the state after the death of 10 cattle heads on the fringes of Bandipur forest. Forest officials are perplexed as this comes just two months after anthrax claimed a 10-year-old tusker in Thalavadi range in Sathyamangalam forest bordering BRT tiger reserve in November last year.
While the government asserts the disease has been contained—it is 10 days since anthrax struck the cattle at Bheemana Bidu village, 8km away from Bandipur on the Mysore-Sultan Bathery road —fear stalks the swathes of tiger reserves of Nagarahole, Bandipur and BRT. Forest officials are jittery given that the disease claimed four elephants in Nagarahole and Bandipur tiger reserves nine years ago.
A senior official of Bandipur National Park conceded that the death of cattle was worrisome. "Luckily, there have been no animal deaths under mysterious circumstances inside the forested area." He said it was early days to say that the damage has been contained.
Courtesy:-TOI
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