Acting Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (Wildlife) S K Sood has been asked by the Government to submit a report on the disappearance of tigers from forests around the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve. The Indian Express had first reported on May 16 how man-animal conflict, which had claimed 11 lives in 2006, 14 in 2007 and 26 in 2008, had almost come to an end with only one death being reported in the affected area in the past five months. Over the past 10 months, death of four tiger cubs, orphaning of five others and cases of missing tigresses have been reported from three different spots. The department has now sought “immediate” explanation from Sood on the reports of disappearance of tigers being the reason for the end of the man-animal conflict.