Archive · 28 Dec 2025
Forest Department Dilemma: No Unique Animals
The Forest Department in Madhya Pradesh is having a hard time deciding which animals to take from Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and Odisha in exchange for tigers.
They are giving away around a dozen tigers to these states.
Rajasthan has already taken one tigress from the Pench Tiger Reserve.
The problem is that none of these states have any unique animals that Madhya Pradesh doesn't already have.
Rajasthan has leopards, but Madhya Pradesh already has many of them.
Chhattisgarh doesn't have a lot of different animals, and its elephants sometimes wander into Madhya Pradesh's reserves.
The department is still discussing what animals to take in exchange for the tigers.
The Forest Department in Madhya Pradesh is unsure which animals to take in exchange for tigers from Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and Odisha.
Around a dozen tigers are to be shared with these neighboring states, with Rajasthan already receiving one tigress from the Pench Tiger Reserve.
None of the three states have unique wild animals that Madhya Pradesh does not already possess.
Chhattisgarh lacks a variety of wild animals, and its elephants often roam into Madhya Pradesh's reserves.
Discussions are ongoing to determine which wild animals could be taken in exchange for the tigers.
- Who
- Forest Department of Madhya Pradesh
- What
- Dilemma over which animal to take in exchange for tigers
- When
- Ongoing
- Where
- Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
- Why
- To diversify species in Madhya Pradesh
- Location
- Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
- Animals to be exchanged
- Tigers for other wild animals
- States involved
- Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Odisha
- Tigers to be shared
- Around a dozen
- Tigress already given
- One to Rajasthan
- Source of tigress
- Pench Tiger Reserve
- Reason for exchange
- To diversify species in Madhya Pradesh
- Official contacted
- Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife), Subhranjan Sen