Wild Tiger Found in Hotel Becomes First Translocated in Nepal (Slideshow)

Posted by in ECO, Green on Jan 26th, 2011 | no responses

Photo credit: WWF Nepal/Min Bajracharya Last September, this male tiger wandered into a hotel in the tourist town of Sauraha, Nepal, and was subsequently injured as it tried to get away. Conservation authorities brought the tiger to a secure enclosure within Chitwan National Park for rehabilitation. As the tiger regained strength, conservationists including the World Wildlife Fund — the organization behind the photos displayed here — realized that they had a unique opportunity: to translocate the tiger to a more suitable habitat and to ta… Read the full story on TreeHugger