One more tiger spotted at Neora Valley National Park

Forest department officials are delighted after two Royal Bengal tigers were reportedly caught on the CCTV cameras at Neora Valley National Park in past one month in Darjeeling district.

The tiger was spotted on January 18 for the first time.

According to the forest department officials it was probably for the first time in 40 years that a tiger was spotted in the Neora Valley National Park under Gorumara forest division.

On Sunday, another full grown tiger was found on the CCTV footages. This is heartening news to the forest officials as for a long time there was no trace of tigers at Buxa tiger project. Senior officials of the Gorumara forest division said that they were happy after the existence of two tigers was found in the Neora Valley National Park. "Two tigers have been traced in past one month. We are comparing the photographs of the two tigers.

The photographs were captured from two different angles. The black and yellow stripes of both the tigers are also being examined. We did not have proofs that tigers are there in the park but we had a belief. This was for the first time photographs were captured," a senior official of the forest department in North Bengal said.

It may be mentioned that a driver, Anmol Chhetri had clicked the photograph of the first tiger while returning to Lava in Darjeeling district of West Bengal after dropping his customers at Pedong near the Sikkim border.

While turning a curve in the morning, he saw a beast with black and yellow stripes behind a rock in the mountain slope.

Before realising what it was, Anmol found himself pressing the brakes of his car. He took out his mobile phone and captured a photograph after zooming in the camera on the tiger. The tiger was eating cow after killing it.