Another leopard cat killed outside Corbett

Park director Vinod Singhal said, 8220;Animal deaths around Corbett Tiger Reserve by speeding vehicles has become a very serious matter.8221; While the buffer zone of the tiger reserve lines one side of the National Highway, animals cross the road to move towards the Kosi river through patches of privately-owned land or civil forest. 8220;Since this is a highway, we cannot step in and put speedbreakers. But we have written to the national and state highway authorities and the local traffic police. We are also putting up heavy signboards around the area to caution traffic to slow down. Animals tend to move towards the Kosi river,8221; said Singhal.

Last December, a tiger was hit on the same road by a Volvo bus but survived.

Despite the high number of animal deaths around Corbett, the state Government is working on a review petition in the Central Empowered Committee of the Supreme Court to build a road connecting Garhwal and Kumaon through Corbett.