Madhya Pradesh tiger deaths
Madhya Pradesh tiger deaths are spiraling in 2025 — 36 already this year. Poachers exploit corridors, farm edges, and power lines. One tiger found mutilated in the Tawa backwaters. Another electrocuted in Sanjay Tiger Reserve. Three more confirmed poached along the Kuno–Madhav–Ranthambore corridor. These are not isolated tragedies but a coordinated assault.
Experts warn today’s tiger killers are electricians with wires and snares, not hunters with rifles. Cable traps, poisoned carcasses, and illegal electrification make farm edges lethal. Buffers and corridors remain the weak link, still treated as secondary. Our feature on Tiger Poaching shows how traffickers exploit these gaps while governments drag their feet.
Madhya Pradesh has 785 tigers — the largest population in India, and therefore the most at risk. Each cluster of tiger deaths is a siren, exposing negligence, slow forensics, weak enforcement, and political failure. If action does not harden corridors now, the crown will slip.
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