Rishikesh, May 16 (PTI) A tigress was translocated from the core zone of the Corbett Tiger Reserve to the Rajaji Tiger Reserve in Uttarakhand on Tuesday, an official said.

The five-year-old tigress has been kept in a safe enclosure of the Motichoor range of Rajaji Tiger Reserve, Uttarakhand's Chief Wildlife Warden Samir Sinha said.

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This is the third big cat to be translocated from Corbett to Rajaji.

A tiger and a tigress were translocated to Rajaji Tiger Reserve in 2021.

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However, the National Tiger Conservation Authority put the translocation of tigers to the Rajaji reserve on hold when one of them escaped from an enclosure there dropping its radio collar behind.

This is the first big cat to be translocated from Corbett to Rajaji after the NTCA's permission to resume the process.

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