India, Sept. 13 -- Eight tigers will be relocated between reserves in Maharashtra, a human intervention, paradoxically, to rein in their numbers in the Tadoba-Andhari and Pench tiger reserves, thronged by tourists for their tiger sightings.

The tigers - five female and three male - will be resettled from these two reserves in Vidarbha in eastern Maharashtra, to the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve, in the Konkan, in Western Maharashtra.

It is hoped that the plan, cleared by the Union ministry of environment and forests on Thursday, will curb the now frequent territorial fights between the big cats, some of them fatal, and their attacks on humans.

The resettlement proposal, prepared by IFS officer Clement Ben when he was field director of the Sah...