A tigress has surprised the security arrangements of the forest department in Buxa Tiger Reserve of West Bengal. The tigress made a tunnel by digging soil under the strong concrete wall and ran away from the enclosure. The special thing is that she has succeeded in escaping for the second time within five days. After this incident, the forest department team is busy searching for him.
Actually, this tigress of Buxa is known as Rana. According to officials, on Sunday she broke out of the secure enclosure near the 25-Mile Tower and moved towards the east. He dug soil under the concrete wall about two feet wide and four feet deep and made a path. After this she crossed Bala river and reached 27-Mile Forest Settlement area. The name of this tigress is Rani.
Even before this, the tigress had left Buxa and moved towards Assam. After a search of about 13 days, on November 3, he was caught unconscious on the banks of Lausa river in Dotma area of Kokrajhar district of Assam. On November 4, he was brought back and kept in Buxa's enclosure. But now after just five days she has run away again.
Some forest department officials suspect that the tigress might have come in contact with a male tiger while living in the forests of Assam. It is possible that she is going towards that area again because of his smell. This tigress was released from Valmiki Tiger Reserve in Bihar to Buxa Tiger Reserve in West Bengal on 2 October 2026. At the end of October, this tigress left Buxa and crossed the Sankosh river and reached Raimona National Park and Kokrajhar district of Assam.
Following reports of it reaching near human settlements and causing harm to domesticated pigs, on November 3, 2026, the forest departments of West Bengal and Assam conducted a joint operation and tranquilized and caught it in Kokrajhar.
Trend elephant involved in search operation
A team of about 60 trained forest personnel has been deployed to find the tigress. He is being searched on the basis of the signal received from the radio collar. Apart from this, three trained elephants named Bharat, Sarathi and Vittala have also been included in the campaign.
Fear of reaching where?
According to forest officials, the signal of the radio collar is not being received due to the tigress going into the shadow zone. In such a situation, it has become difficult to find out its exact location. Now the department fears that she may cross the Sankosh river and reach Raimona Tiger Reserve in Assam.