<p>Hours after tigress Avni was shot dead at the orders of Maharashtra government, the Shiv Sena on Saturday wanted to know why the government didn't focus on capturing the tigress.</p>.<p>Incidentally, the Shiv Sena's registered party symbol is a tiger.</p>.<p>Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray's son Aditya lashed out at Sudhir Mungantiwar, finance, planning and forest minister, for the animal's killing.</p>.<p>"So what exactly is the difference between poachers/ trophy hunters and the government officials who shot down and killed Tigress Avni ? Just that the government officials and the forest ministry is supposed to protect animals and forests from these poachers, not get inspired by them," Aditya, a Sena leader and Yuva Sena president, said.</p>.<p>According to him, human-animal conflict exists world over but it’s the duty of this very ministry to resolve such conflicts without hurting humans or wild life.</p>.<p>"I want the minister to ask his officials handling this issue, and then answer the people directly on: if they could get a shot, so perfect to murder Avni, why couldn’t this expert blood thirsty hunter dart the tigress and tranquilise her?," he wanted to know.</p>.<p>"Whoever this expert hunter was, what a good shot! But such a perfect shot on a moving animal like a tiger that’s swift and apparently killing humans in sight needs practice. Where does he practice killing animals? And more importantly thereafter, was the tigress shot from a machaan? Or face to face just before it could kill him? Then surely darting was an option," he said.</p>.<p>As a family of wild life lovers and conservationists, we had been coordinating internally to stop this hunt, he said.</p>.<p>"The tigress could’ve been easily tranquillised and relocated. We didn’t speak publicly so as to not make it political or personal. It still isn’t. It’s about our nature," he said.</p>
<p>Hours after tigress Avni was shot dead at the orders of Maharashtra government, the Shiv Sena on Saturday wanted to know why the government didn't focus on capturing the tigress.</p>.<p>Incidentally, the Shiv Sena's registered party symbol is a tiger.</p>.<p>Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray's son Aditya lashed out at Sudhir Mungantiwar, finance, planning and forest minister, for the animal's killing.</p>.<p>"So what exactly is the difference between poachers/ trophy hunters and the government officials who shot down and killed Tigress Avni ? Just that the government officials and the forest ministry is supposed to protect animals and forests from these poachers, not get inspired by them," Aditya, a Sena leader and Yuva Sena president, said.</p>.<p>According to him, human-animal conflict exists world over but it’s the duty of this very ministry to resolve such conflicts without hurting humans or wild life.</p>.<p>"I want the minister to ask his officials handling this issue, and then answer the people directly on: if they could get a shot, so perfect to murder Avni, why couldn’t this expert blood thirsty hunter dart the tigress and tranquilise her?," he wanted to know.</p>.<p>"Whoever this expert hunter was, what a good shot! But such a perfect shot on a moving animal like a tiger that’s swift and apparently killing humans in sight needs practice. Where does he practice killing animals? And more importantly thereafter, was the tigress shot from a machaan? Or face to face just before it could kill him? Then surely darting was an option," he said.</p>.<p>As a family of wild life lovers and conservationists, we had been coordinating internally to stop this hunt, he said.</p>.<p>"The tigress could’ve been easily tranquillised and relocated. We didn’t speak publicly so as to not make it political or personal. It still isn’t. It’s about our nature," he said.</p>