Dooars Rani, West Bengal's first relocated tigress, is brought back to Buxa from Assam

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Dooars Rani, West Bengal's first relocated tigress, is brought back to Buxa from Assam

3 November 2026

Dooars Rani (T-138), a three-year-old tigress, was tranquilised in Assam and returned to Buxa Tiger Reserve. She had been moved from the Valmiki Tiger Reserve in Bihar and released in Buxa as part of West Bengal's first tiger relocation project. She later crossed the Sankosh River into Assam's Raimona National Park. Forest teams from both States and the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) tracked her before the capture. Buxa was declared a tiger reserve in 1983, but there were no recent reports of tigers there. The move is part of the Tiger Augmentation and Recovery Project, a West Bengal effort backed by the NTCA and the Wildlife Institute of India (WII).

Tigress: Dooars Rani Brought from: Valmiki Tiger Reserve Buxa declared tiger reserve: 1983

Why it matters for exams: Tiger reserves and the States they lie in (Buxa in West Bengal, Valmiki in Bihar), and the NTCA, are standard environment questions.

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3 November 2026 Source: The Hindu

In plain words

NTCA National Tiger Conservation Authority — Statutory body under the Union Environment Ministry that oversees Project Tiger.

WII Wildlife Institute of India — Dehradun-based wildlife research and training institute.

Translocation — Moving wild animals from one habitat to another to rebuild a population.