New Delhi: For the past nine months, Gujarat’s Dahod district is now home to a tiger who wandered into the state from Madhya Pradesh in February this year. This marks the first time Gujarat has had a tiger in the wild since 1997, and makes Gujarat the first state to have the three big cats: lion, tiger, leopard.

The male tiger, which came into the Ratanmahal Sloth Bear Sanctuary across the border from Madhya Pradesh, has been spotted in camera traps and has even made prey kills in Gujarat.

“This is really good news for us, because for the first time in years we have tigers, lions and leopards, three of the big cats in India, in our state,” A.P. Singh, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) in Gujarat, told ThePrint. “We want to establish a habitat so more tigers come back to Guja

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