A female tiger was tragically crushed to death by a speeding truck on Ubdur-Bavali road inside the Nagarahole National park at night on Saturday, the 12th of July.
The government is well aware that this crucial 12km stretch of road gives poachers optimum advantage to smuggle various rare natural woods such as teak and rose worth lakhs of rupees besides numerous wildlife products such as tiger skin, elephant tusks, venison and wild boar meat
Trucks and lorries also ply through the Ubdur-Bavali road to evade taxes, which in turn results in losses in tune of millions of rupees for the state. The same route is used at night to ferry cattle from Karnataka to butcheries in Kerala.
This road should effectively be banned for use as the stretch happens to pass through the heart of the Nagarahole National Park and is the crucial migratory corridor for elephants and tigers to pass to Bandipur.
During summer, several hundreds of elephants gather on the banks of river Kabini dam when they are in shortage of food and water, but this road poses as a major hindrance for their movement. This also affects other animals with wide home ranges, such as tigers.
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