• A tiger in Ranthambore National Park. Getty Images
    A tiger in Ranthambore National Park. Getty Images
  • Rajesh Kumar Yogi, 30, a shopkeeper, says the villages near Ranthambore National Park are suffering more and more tiger attacks. Taniya Dutta / The National
    Rajesh Kumar Yogi, 30, a shopkeeper, says the villages near Ranthambore National Park are suffering more and more tiger attacks. Taniya Dutta / The National
  • Rajesh Kumar Yogi, 30, showing his mother Jamuna Devi’s picture. She was attacked and mauled to death by a tiger near her fields in Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan in February 2019. Taniya Dutta / The National
    Rajesh Kumar Yogi, 30, showing his mother Jamuna Devi’s picture. She was attacked and mauled to death by a tiger near her fields in Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan in February 2019. Taniya Dutta / The National
  • Jamuna Devi, 45, from Kundera village in Sawai Madhopur, had gone into a field to relieve herself—a common practice in rural India where toilets are scarce – in the wee hours on a winter morning in February 2020. Taniya Dutta / The National
    Jamuna Devi, 45, from Kundera village in Sawai Madhopur, had gone into a field to relieve herself—a common practice in rural India where toilets are scarce – in the wee hours on a winter morning in February 2020. Taniya Dutta / The National
  • The 72-year-old security guard at a private college accused the government of prioritising tigers over people for economic reasons because cats are a big tourist attraction and generate billions of rupees each year. Taniya Dutta / The National
    The 72-year-old security guard at a private college accused the government of prioritising tigers over people for economic reasons because cats are a big tourist attraction and generate billions of rupees each year. Taniya Dutta / The National
  • Ram Kalyan Saini, 50, was returning home to his village near Ranthambore National Park in Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan from his fields on his motorcycle when he was attacked by a tigress. Taniya Dutta / The National
    Ram Kalyan Saini, 50, was returning home to his village near Ranthambore National Park in Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan from his fields on his motorcycle when he was attacked by a tigress. Taniya Dutta / The National
  • The tigress clawed Mr Saini’s left arm and injured his face, leaving him in hospital for days. His wounds took about two months to heal. Taniya Dutta / The National
    The tigress clawed Mr Saini’s left arm and injured his face, leaving him in hospital for days. His wounds took about two months to heal. Taniya Dutta / The National
  • Women labourers in the millet fields near Ranthambore National Park say they are scared of tiger attacks and often fear the animals could be lurking in the fields. Taniya Dutta / The National
    Women labourers in the millet fields near Ranthambore National Park say they are scared of tiger attacks and often fear the animals could be lurking in the fields. Taniya Dutta / The National
  • The 932-square-kilometre area of deciduous forests and open grass meadows in the western state of Rajasthan is home to more than 80 tigers – the most in its 42-year history. Taniya Dutta / The National
    The 932-square-kilometre area of deciduous forests and open grass meadows in the western state of Rajasthan is home to more than 80 tigers – the most in its 42-year history. Taniya Dutta / The National
  • Tourists watch a female Bengal tiger in Ranthambore National Park, Rajasthan, India. Getty Images
    Tourists watch a female Bengal tiger in Ranthambore National Park, Rajasthan, India. Getty Images

Tiger attacks leave villagers on edge in India's Ranthambore reserve


Taniya Dutta
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Fifty-year-old Indian farmer Ram Kalyan Saini was travelling home from work one April evening in Rajasthan when he and his two pillion passengers were knocked off his motorcycle.

The farmer briefly blacked out. When he came to, he was lying in a pool of blood in excruciating pain and could hear his passengers mumbling in terror.

“Look at that yellow-black thing”, Mr Saini recalls them saying. It was a tiger lurking nearby with her cubs.

The wildcat had torn off Mr Saini’s left arm and clawed his face. The other two men suffered minor injuries.

“I was shocked. It must have thought that I was dead and was waiting to devour me,” he said.

One of the men called for help from a mobile phone and the three waited for 15 minutes until forestry staff arrived.

“I can only say that I am fortunate. It is only because of God that I am alive,” he said.

It was the second time Mr Saini had been attacked by a tiger. The first attack, three years earlier, occurred nearby, about three kilometres away from the boundary wall of the Ranthambore National Park — one of India’s biggest tiger reserves.

A tiger at Ranthambore National Park near Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan, northern India.
A tiger at Ranthambore National Park near Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan, northern India.

Mr Saini is one of scores of people to be attacked by tigers near the park.

The forest department said in a 2020 report that 12 people were attacked by tigers in Sawai Modhapur District from 2018 to 2020, while at least seven people have been killed in attacks since 2018.

It also found that young tigers aged two or three were more aggressive as they were unable to establish territory.

The 932-square-kilometre area of deciduous forests and open grass meadows in western Rajasthan has more than 80 tigers — the most in its 42-year history.

“The animals are increasingly straying into villages now. The fear of tigers is palpable,” Mr Saini said.

Not everyone is fortunate enough to survive two attacks.

Jamuna Devi, 45, from Kundera village, had gone into a field to relieve herself — a common practice in rural India where toilets are scarce — early on a winter morning in February 2019.

A tiger attacked her, dragged her six metres away and mauled her to death, possible believing she was cattle.

“Her body was torn into several pieces. It was headless. I couldn’t even recognise her,” Rajesh Kumar Yogi, her son, told The National.

The 30-year-old shopkeeper said in the past decade “more and more tigers are attacking humans”.

“It is mainly because of the excess tiger population that the animals are straying into villages and they have no fear of humans any more,” Mr Yogi said.

Wildlife experts agree.

Female labourers in the millet fields near Ranthambore National Park in Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan say they are scared of tiger attacks, and often fear the animals are lurking in the fields. Photo: Taniya Dutta/The National
Female labourers in the millet fields near Ranthambore National Park in Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan say they are scared of tiger attacks, and often fear the animals are lurking in the fields. Photo: Taniya Dutta/The National

The park has a capacity to host 50 tigers — a limit it exceeded almost a decade ago, leading to tiger-human conflicts as well as territorial fights among the cats.

Ullas Karanth, a conservation zoologist based in Bengaluru, said protected tiger populations combined with an abundant prey base naturally produce surplus tigers periodically.

“And there are either old, infirm animals or sub-adults which are being pushed out by stronger resident tigers on account of territorial behaviour,” Mr Karanth told The National.

The number of tigers and their cubs in Ranthambore increased dramatically from 66 to 81 between 2019 and 2021, according to government data.

Conservation success

Ranthambore's rising population is a part of the remarkable success of India's programme to conserve tigers — the tiger is the national animal and a protected species in the country.

Since it launched Project Tiger in 1973, India has created 52 dedicated reserves and increased the population in the wild from fewer than 2,000 to nearly 3,000 — two thirds of the world's total — and aims to increase that to 4,000 by 2030.

But the conservation effort has backfired in places where the tiger population has grown too large for the area available.

The 932-square-kilometre area of deciduous forests and open grass meadows in the western state of Rajasthan has more than 80 tigers – the most in its 42-year history. Photo: Taniya Dutta/The National
The 932-square-kilometre area of deciduous forests and open grass meadows in the western state of Rajasthan has more than 80 tigers – the most in its 42-year history. Photo: Taniya Dutta/The National

Tigers are solitary creatures, with an adult requiring up to 150 square kilometres of territory to roam.

The competition for space and prey has forced many tigers to venture out of the park into human habitations to hunt livestock and — at times — humans.

More than 100 people were killed in tiger attacks in India between 2019 and 2021, according to official figures.

Authorities in western Maharashtra on Thursday captured a “man-eater” tiger that was thought to have killed 13 people in last 10 months, and officials shot dead a tiger last week that had killed nine people in Bihar state.

'Why are people dying?'

Despite the rising number of attacks, forest officials say numbers are lower than in states such as Madhya Pradesh, where 17 incidents of tigers attacking humans were reported in 2020 alone.

“There are not many cases … these are few accidents. We are trying to move the tigers to other reserves and also sensitise locals,” Seduram Yadav, Chief Conservator of Forests in Ranthambore, told The National.

But Laddoo Lal Singh, 72, who lost his 21-year-old son in a tiger attack 12 years ago, rejects the official claim.

“Nothing has changed all these years. I don’t think the government is making real efforts to curb such incidents, otherwise, why are people dying?” he said.

Laddoo Lal Singh, 72, lost his 21-year-old son in a tiger attack 12 years ago. He accuses the government of prioritising tigers over humans for economic reasons. Photo: Taniya Dutta/The National
Laddoo Lal Singh, 72, lost his 21-year-old son in a tiger attack 12 years ago. He accuses the government of prioritising tigers over humans for economic reasons. Photo: Taniya Dutta/The National

Mr Singh accused the government of prioritising tigers over humans because they are a big tourist attraction and generate billions of rupees each year.

Nearly half a million tourists visit the park every year. According to an official report, the government earned more than 200 million rupees ($2.4m) from park fees in 2019 while the park generated 2.20 billion rupees for the local economy in 2018.

Dr Rajesh Gopal, Secretary General of the inter-governmental Global Tiger Forum, told The National: “We have to actively pick up the young ones who are about to leave natal areas and translocate them to protected areas.”

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Winner: Rawy, Mickael Barzalona, Salem bin Ghadayer 

7.45pm: Al Rashidiya – Group 2 (TB) $180,000 (T) 1,800m 

Winner: Desert Fire, Hector Crouch, Saeed bin Suroor 

8.20pm: Al Fahidi Fort – Group 2 (TB) $180,000 (T) 1,400m 

Winner: Naval Crown, William Buick, Charlie Appleby 

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Winner: Al Tariq, Pat Dobbs, Doug Watsons 

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Winner: Dubai Icon, Patrick Cosgrave, Saeed bin Suroor  

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Mercer, the investment consulting arm of US services company Marsh & McLennan, expects its wealth division to at least double its assets under management (AUM) in the Middle East as wealth in the region continues to grow despite economic headwinds, a company official said.

Mercer Wealth, which globally has $160 billion in AUM, plans to boost its AUM in the region to $2-$3bn in the next 2-3 years from the present $1bn, said Yasir AbuShaban, a Dubai-based principal with Mercer Wealth.

Within the next two to three years, we are looking at reaching $2 to $3 billion as a conservative estimate and we do see an opportunity to do so,” said Mr AbuShaban.

Mercer does not directly make investments, but allocates clients’ money they have discretion to, to professional asset managers. They also provide advice to clients.

“We have buying power. We can negotiate on their (client’s) behalf with asset managers to provide them lower fees than they otherwise would have to get on their own,” he added.

Mercer Wealth’s clients include sovereign wealth funds, family offices, and insurance companies among others.

From its office in Dubai, Mercer also looks after Africa, India and Turkey, where they also see opportunity for growth.

Wealth creation in Middle East and Africa (MEA) grew 8.5 per cent to $8.1 trillion last year from $7.5tn in 2015, higher than last year’s global average of 6 per cent and the second-highest growth in a region after Asia-Pacific which grew 9.9 per cent, according to consultancy Boston Consulting Group (BCG). In the region, where wealth grew just 1.9 per cent in 2015 compared with 2014, a pickup in oil prices has helped in wealth generation.

BCG is forecasting MEA wealth will rise to $12tn by 2021, growing at an annual average of 8 per cent.

Drivers of wealth generation in the region will be split evenly between new wealth creation and growth of performance of existing assets, according to BCG.

Another general trend in the region is clients’ looking for a comprehensive approach to investing, according to Mr AbuShaban.

“Institutional investors or some of the families are seeing a slowdown in the available capital they have to invest and in that sense they are looking at optimizing the way they manage their portfolios and making sure they are not investing haphazardly and different parts of their investment are working together,” said Mr AbuShaban.

Some clients also have a higher appetite for risk, given the low interest-rate environment that does not provide enough yield for some institutional investors. These clients are keen to invest in illiquid assets, such as private equity and infrastructure.

“What we have seen is a desire for higher returns in what has been a low-return environment specifically in various fixed income or bonds,” he said.

“In this environment, we have seen a de facto increase in the risk that clients are taking in things like illiquid investments, private equity investments, infrastructure and private debt, those kind of investments were higher illiquidity results in incrementally higher returns.”

The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, one of the largest sovereign wealth funds, said in its 2016 report that has gradually increased its exposure in direct private equity and private credit transactions, mainly in Asian markets and especially in China and India. The authority’s private equity department focused on structured equities owing to “their defensive characteristics.”

UFC Fight Night 2

1am – Early prelims

2am – Prelims

4am-7am – Main card

7:30am-9am – press cons

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If you go

 

  • The nearest international airport to the start of the Chuysky Trakt is in Novosibirsk. Emirates (www.emirates.com) offer codeshare flights with S7 Airlines (www.s7.ru) via Moscow for US$5,300 (Dh19,467) return including taxes. Cheaper flights are available on Flydubai and Air Astana or Aeroflot combination, flying via Astana in Kazakhstan or Moscow. Economy class tickets are available for US$650 (Dh2,400).
  • The Double Tree by Hilton in Novosibirsk ( 7 383 2230100,) has double rooms from US$60 (Dh220). You can rent cabins at camp grounds or rooms in guesthouses in the towns for around US$25 (Dh90).
  • The transport Minibuses run along the Chuysky Trakt but if you want to stop for sightseeing, hire a taxi from Gorno-Altaisk for about US$100 (Dh360) a day. Take a Russian phrasebook or download a translation app. Tour companies such as  Altair-Tour ( 7 383 2125115 ) offer hiking and adventure packages.
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Rating: 4/5

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Manchester City 4 (Gundogan 8' (P), Bernardo Silva 19', Jesus 72', 75')

Fulham 0

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Man of the Match: Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City)

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6.30pm: The Madjani Stakes (PA) Group 3 Dh175,000 (Dirt) 1,900m

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The National selections

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Arsenal 4
Monreal (51'), Ramsey (82'), Lacazette 85', 89')

West Ham United 1
Arnautovic (64')

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