{"id":15935,"date":"2023-03-08T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorersagainstextinction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15935"},"modified":"2025-01-16T14:38:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T14:38:03","slug":"a-tribute-to-t1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explorersagainstextinction.co.uk\/blog\/a-tribute-to-t1\/","title":{"rendered":"A tribute to T1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Panna Tiger Reserve is mourning the loss of T1, a female Royal Bengal Tiger, who died in February.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Panna Tiger Reserve is in Madhya Pradesh in India with the beautiful River Ken flowing through its heart. Some of the forests within the protected area&nbsp;were originally Royal hunting grounds. National park status was granted in 1981 and Panna officially became a&nbsp;tiger reserve (India&#8217;s 22nd) in 1994.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a very beautiful park, dotted with ancient rock-paintings and home to a diversity of life from gharials to leopards but it has a dark history. In spite of protected status Panna was ravaged by poaching throughout the 90s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By 2009, not a single tiger was left.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>T1 arrived in March 2009, translocated from&nbsp;Bandhavgarh National Park,&nbsp;&nbsp;the first tiger to arrive as part of an ambitious reintroduction programme which also saw tigress T2 translocated from&nbsp;Kanha and tiger T3 from Pench.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>T3 immediately started making his way back to Pench, being tracked the whole time by researchers. He travelled more than 450km south, without conflict,&nbsp; before being&nbsp;returned to Panna in December where he eventually settled on a territory and mated with T1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four cubs were born in April 2010.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By this time T2 was also pregnant and four more cubs were born later that year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>T1 went on to have four further&nbsp;litters and successfully raised a total of 13 tiger cubs in the forests of Panna &#8211; an incredible&nbsp;legacy. Today there are estimated to be more than 80 tigers living in Panna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>T1 was discovered by forest rangers last month. They also found her inactive radio collar nearby.&nbsp;A post mortem has shown that T1 died of natural causes. She was 17 years old &#8211; far beyond the average life expectancy of a tigress, which is&nbsp;14 years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If you are interested in seeing tigers in the wild in India or Nepal please visit our dedicated Asia wildlife travel site&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/realasia.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If you&#8217;d like to visit Panna, you may be interested in this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/explorersagainstextinction.co.uk\/support-us\/travel\/asia\/india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sample itinerary<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Image: T1 with cubs, courtesy&nbsp;Panna Tiger Reserve<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panna Tiger Reserve is mourning the loss of T1, a female Royal Bengal Tiger, who died in February.&nbsp; Panna Tiger Reserve is in Madhya Pradesh in India with the beautiful&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,517],"tags":[512,632,633],"powerkit_post_featured":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - 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