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By Carter Roberts | 03-02-2011 | 1:44 PM
Goal One
Goal Two
Goal Three
The Nepalese Team
Success with the Sedative
Paw
Collaring
Preparing for the Journey
The Plan
The Procession Across the Terai
A Formal Exchange
Taking to the Trees
He’s Off
The Tracking Team
It Takes and Army
A Joyous Occasion
Terai Communities Embracing the Need for Forests
The Tiger A Week After the Translocation
This past January, WWFUS CEO Carter Roberts went to Nepal to bring a rehabilitated tiger back into the wild. The pictures from the journey are ahead, but Roberts's story is here.
Goal One: Translocate rehabilitated tiger from Chitwan National Park (A) to Bardia National Park (B).
Begin process of knowing the location and movements of all of the world’s 3,200 wild tigers.
Reestablish connectivity and ecological integrity in a landscape amidst a crush of humanity.
The veterinarian team prepares the ketamine tranquilizer for the male tiger.
Data collection begins.
Self explanatory!
WWF’s President and CEO Carter Roberts affixes GPS collar and satellite transmission device.
Still sedated, the tiger is loaded onto the truck and the long westward journey begins.
WWF Nepal team discuss the Terai and steps to restore landscapes between parks.
The groggy tiger is hauled in the vehicle announcing “Conservation for Development.”
The National Park directors from Chitwan and Bardia formalize the tiger’s translocation.
The team takes to the trees for a relatively safe viewing of the release.
After a brief hesitation, the tiger glides through the forest. The translocation is a success.
Bidding the tracking team farewell as they set off to follow the tiger with telemetry.
The team celebrates the first of many collaring and translocations of tigers in Nepal.
Communities celebrate the restoration work throughout the Terai Arc landscape following the release.
Communities throughout the Terai welcome the prospects of more productive forests.
The tiger, named Namo Buddha, enjoying the benefits of a more-intact landscape. Read more about the translocation process here.
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