Fence blocks tigress, cubs’ return as Pilibhit harvest peaks

Chain-link fencing erected around the forest at villagers’ demand has complicated the situation by limiting the animals’ routes back into the core forestPilibhit: Three big cats, believed to be a tigress and her two sub-adult cubs, have been roaming agricultural fields around three Pilibhit villages for a week, triggering panic as the peak paddy-harvesting season brings farmers and their families into the fields.