Collarwali breathes her last, MP’s Pench tiger reserve loses its ‘Supermom’

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Last Updated19/01/2022

The Principal Chief Conservator of Forests PCCF said prima facie, it seemed that the tigress died due to old age.
The State Forest Research Institute tracked Collarwali for seven years to study breeding and cub-raising among tigers
It was described as “the pride of the entire Madhya Pradesh”

It is named after the Pench River.
It is located in the southern reaches of the Satpura hills in the Seoni and Chhindwara districts in Madhya Pradesh, and continues in Nagpur district in Maharashtra as a separate Sanctuary.
It was declared a National Park by the Government of Maharashtra in 1975 and the status of a tiger reserve was granted to it in the year 1998-1999.
It is one of the major Protected Areas of Satpura-Maikal ranges of the Central Highlands.
It is among the sites notified as Important Bird Areas (IBA) of India.

It is a tributary of the Kanhan River.
It originates in the Chhindwara district of Madhya Pradesh and flows through the middle of the park.
It descends from north to south, thereby dividing the reserve into equal eastern and western parts.

It was also known as the queen of Pench and a Super Mom who birthed 29 cubs
It played an important role in getting MP the tag of a tiger state.
It gave birth to 29 cubs in eight litters and successfully raised 25 which is a rare incident
This has earned her the title of “Supermom” among wildlife lovers.

The project Tiger began in 1973 with the establishment of nine tiger reserves with the goal of saving the national animal, the tiger.
It now covers 53 tiger reserves throughout 18 tiger habitat states
The tiger reserves are constituted on a core/buffer strategy.
The core parts are legally designated as a national park or a sanctuary, while the buffer or peripheral areas are a mix of forest and non-forest land maintained as a multiple-use area.
It is a Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change-sponsored scheme that provides government aid to tiger states for tiger conservation in designated tiger reserves.