India, Nov. 21 -- A female tigress, Chanda (T-20-S-2) brought from Tadoba, was released into the wild in the Sahyadri Reserves on Thursday morning after completing a scientifically supervised acclimatisation period inside a controlled enclosure at Chandoli National Park under the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve.

The release comes as the Maharashtra forest department intensifies its tiger revival efforts across the four districts covered by the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve - Satara, Sangli, Kolhapur and Ratnagiri. As part of the plan, a tigress named Chanda from Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve was shifted to Sahyadri, marking the start of a centrally approved programme to move eight tigers from Tadoba and Pench in phases. In the first phase, two tigresses ...