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Along with the apex predator, the populations of a myriad other species that also received protection have grown.
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Nirmal Ghosh
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On the afternoon of Feb 17, 2024, a woman gathering firewood in the jungle at Dhela, a tiny hamlet on the edge of Corbett Tiger Reserve, a sprawling wilderness in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand, was killed by a tiger.
Less than a month earlier, on Jan 28, some 7km away in another hamlet called Sawaldeh, a woman was killed, also by a tiger. The previous day, a man had been killed by a tiger in Chukum, a hamlet of around 300 people in the same area.
