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NAGPUR: In a worrying trend, accidents, poaching, and electrocution accounted for a important fig of 142 tiger and 537 leopard deaths reported successful Maharashtra from Jan 2022 to Sept 2025.
The large feline fatality information was provided by the main main conservator of forests (PCCF), Nagpur, successful effect to a Right to Information (RTI) query.The study states that 35 tigers and 115 leopards person died successful Maharashtra this twelvemonth till Sept. In comparison, 26 tiger deaths were reported successful 2024, 52 successful 2023, and 29 successful 2022. Among this year’s tiger deaths, 21 were owed to earthy causes, 5 from accidents, different 5 linked to electrocution and poaching, and 4 owed to unspecified reasons.Of the 142 tiger fatalities reported since 2022, earthy deaths accounted for 84 cases, portion 23 were killed successful accidents and 29 fell to poaching. In six cases, the origin of decease remained unclear. Experts accidental poachers commonly usage electrocution and traps successful wood fringes.“Poachers people large cats chiefly for their assemblage parts and claws, which person precocious worth successful the achromatic market. They are besides killed to forestall attacks connected livestock,” said a wildlife transgression analyst.
Leopard deaths, which stood astatine 115 truthful acold successful 2025, included 44 from earthy causes, 42 from accidents, 2 from hunting, 3 from electrocution, and 21 from different causes. In the past, the authorities had recorded 144 leopard deaths successful 2024, 138 successful 2023, and 140 successful 2022.The information was issued successful effect to a RTI filed by Abhay Kolarkar.The information confirms that Maharashtra’s tiger colonisation stands astatine 444, arsenic per ‘Status of Tigers successful India 2022’ study published by the National Tiger Conservation Authority. Officials said astir earthy deaths are linked to intra-species conflicts, aged age, and diseases, portion accidental deaths impact conveyance hits and electrocution adjacent wood fringes. Experts besides attributed the precocious mishap complaint to highways and railway lines passing done wildlife corridors.
