India, June 3 -- Tigress T2, one of the two tigresses to be relocated to Panna TIger Reserve in 2009 that played a crucial role to repopulate the tiger reserve in northern Madhya Pradesh's Vindhyas died last week and has been cremated, people familiar with the matter said.

Officials said T2 died in a fatal territorial fight in the core of the tiger reserve on May 28. "She was cremated on June 1," said Gaurav Kumar, divisional forest officer, Panna North division.

T2, also known as the "mother of Panna tiger reserve", was 19.

The two tigresses were relocated from the Bandhavgarh (T1) and Kanha tiger reserves (T2) to Panna under a plan to reintroduce tigers to the reserve that had lost its own to poachers. T1 died in 2023.

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