Tigress found dead in Jim Corbett, second death this year

The national park had another incident earlier this year when a tiger was found dead in the Kalagarh division of Corbett.

2 min readDehradunUpdated: Mar 31, 2025 05:33 PM IST

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Between January and December 2024, 15 tigers were found dead in the state. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

A tigress was found dead in Jim Corbett National Park on Sunday, officials said. This is the second big car death in the reserve this year.

According to Saket Badola, director of the National Park, the carcass was found in the Dhela range Sunday morning.

“Our forest staff and villagers saw the carcass and informed us around 7.30 am on Sunday. We sent the carcass for a postmortem and it was found that its skull had a depression. There were marks of an elephant’s footprints in the spot. We are suspecting that an elephant trampled it. The postmortem has revealed that all organs are intact,” he said.

The authorities have ruled out poaching. Veterinarians also relayed the suspect that the five-year-old female was trampled by an elephant.

The national park had another incident earlier this year when a tiger was found dead in the Kalagarh division of Corbett.

Between January and December 2024, 15 tigers were found dead in the state while another 15 elephants were dead. As many as 123 leopards died last year in Uttarakhand.

While five tigers died in mutual fights, five died a natural death, three were involved in road accidents and two deaths were categorised as accidents. Two died in Kalagarh and two in Ramnagar division.

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The Corbett National Park, spread over 1,288.31 sq km and three districts — Pauri, Nainital, and Almora — is home to 260 tigers, making this the park with the highest density of tigers in the country, according to the Status of Tiger report 2022. According to data provided by Saket Badola, there are nearly 46 villages with a combined population of 2,939 in the area.

Aiswarya Raj

Aiswarya Raj is a Senior Correspondent for The Indian Express, covering Uttarakhand. She brings sound journalistic experience to her role, having started her career at the organisation as a sub-editor with the Delhi city team. She subsequently developed her reporting expertise by covering Gurugram and its neighbouring districts before transitioning to her current role as a resident correspondent in Dehradun. She is an alumna of the Asian College of Journalism (ACJ) and the University of Kerala. She has reported on the state politics, governance, environment and wildlife, and gender. Aiswarya has undertaken investigations using the Right to Information Act on law enforcement, public policy and procurement rules in Uttarakhand. She has also attempted narrative journalism on socio-economic matters affecting local communities. This specific, sustained focus on critical regional news provides the necessary foundation for high trustworthiness and authoritativeness on topics concerning Uttarakhand. ... Read More

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