India, July 2 -- The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) of the ministry of environment, forest and climate change has issued a 'red alert' directing the authorities to visit all tiger reserves.

The bureau directed all concerned officials to immediately intensify the patrolling in sensitive areas amid the excessive poaching of tigers.

The red alert was issued a few days after a beheaded carcass of an adult tiger was found in Madhya Parsdesh's Satpura Tiger Reserve. The decomposed headless carcass was found in the core area of the reserve on Monday, according to officials.

The red alert is issued for six tiger reserves across India, including two of Madhya Pradesh and three districts of MP, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra.

The red alert ...