Tiger siblings poisoned, paws severed in shocking Uttarakhand wildlife crime

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• In a horrifying wildlife crime that has sent shockwaves through the Uttarakhand Forest Department, two two-year-old tiger siblings, a male and a female, were allegedly poisoned, killed and brutally mutilated in the Shyampur range of the Haridwar forest division, wiping out the entire lineage of the tiger family that once roamed the area.
• The carcass of the young male tiger was discovered during a routine tracking operation on Monday evening within the Sajanpur Beat of the Shyampur compartment.
• Forest rangers were stunned to find that all four of the cub's paws had been severed, though its skin and canines remained intact.
• Read Full Story "The poachers probably planned to return to take the skin and canines," said Swapnil Anirudh, Divisional Forest Officer (DFO), Haridwar.
• A subsequent, intensive search resulted in the discovery of the second carcass, his sibling, a young tigress, hidden inside a nearby seasonal drain.