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The team celebrates the resurgence of tiger populations and showcases their triumphant return to the wild. As they reclaim their territories, they venture beyond forest reserves, posing challenges for humans and animals alike...
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00:00:28Disney Nature's Time
00:00:40This film reveals what happens when those cubs leave their mother's side and head off to find territories of their
00:00:48own.
00:00:52In the forest reserve where they live, tiger numbers have doubled in the last 15 years.
00:00:59And now they're running out of space.
00:01:05So young tigers must leave the safety of these sanctuaries and enter a new world.
00:01:15Shared with people.
00:01:20There are many challenges to face.
00:01:30But some tigers are learning to adapt.
00:01:38Fortunately, there are people out there trying to help them.
00:01:46While making Disney Nature's Tiger, the crew teamed up with a group of exceptionally dedicated individuals.
00:01:52Finding ways for people and tigers to co-exist.
00:02:25And the forest.
00:02:29They're the world's most loved animal.
00:02:40Majestic, but elusive.
00:02:46It's hard enough to see a tiger,
00:02:49much less film one.
00:02:56For Disney Nature's tiger, the camera team spent over 1,500 days in the jungles of India,
00:03:04filming over five years.
00:03:13Their patience has paid off,
00:03:17capturing some of the rarest moments of tiger life.
00:03:25For some scenes, the team goes to extraordinary lengths to get the shots.
00:03:33While the tiger heads out for a drink,
00:03:37the crew pops in to check their remote cameras.
00:03:43It's a tense moment, but it's worth it.
00:03:51The honey's rolling around like a kitten. That's amazing.
00:04:00Some of the other animals can get a little too friendly.
00:04:04Excuse me.
00:04:06Excuse me, Mr. Tree Pie.
00:04:11The hidden cameras are only designed to be tiger-proof.
00:04:26This camera's life is truncated.
00:04:33Yeah, a bit of tape and that'll be fine.
00:04:42Two of the many camera people involved in the movie are Indian filmmakers Pooja Rathod and Kalyan Barma.
00:04:55Tigers are secretive by nature.
00:04:58They will only show themselves if they want to be seen.
00:05:08Tiger is like a ghost in the forest.
00:05:12You'd be seeing it for a minute and the next moment it would camouflage so beautifully.
00:05:17And because of its stripes and the way it moves, it can disappear so quickly.
00:05:26Filming tigers, first of all, you need to find them.
00:05:30There are many days you just don't see tigers.
00:05:33And you need to be waiting for that perfect moment, be there with your camera running at the right angle.
00:05:39I really think tigers are the hardest species in the world to film.
00:05:46Pooja and Kalyan have spent many days filming one tigress and have earned her trust.
00:06:03There's one cup there. The one is below.
00:06:12We're just watching a tigress with her cups right there.
00:06:22She's allowed us so close, which is very, very unusual for a tigress because they're generally secretive and very careful
00:06:28when they have cups.
00:06:29As young as they are, they are about six to eight months.
00:06:35The cups are playing and she's absolutely unbothered by her presence.
00:06:42It's a very exciting moment.
00:06:45And it's just nice to be sitting here when they're sleeping right in front of us.
00:07:11Imagine the amount of work that she's doing, right?
00:07:13She has to hunt.
00:07:15She has to feed all these cubs.
00:07:18She's really a super mom.
00:07:22Seeing a mother with cubs is so, so rare in the wild and up close.
00:07:27It's just, yeah, it's, it's a privilege.
00:07:35Over two years, the crew watched the cubs growing up before their eyes.
00:07:44At first, they're a bit unsteady on their paws.
00:07:57As the cubs grow, they learn the ways of the jungle.
00:08:04They discover which animals they can hunt.
00:08:16And which ones are not worth the effort.
00:08:24This unique footage paints the most intimate portrait of tiger family life ever captured.
00:08:45For Pooja and Kalyan, the toughest moment is watching the cubs head off.
00:08:55At 18 months, it's time to leave their mother's side and find a territory of their own.
00:09:11As a camera person filming tigers and following a particular cub for so long,
00:09:17it's, it's very hard to not get attached to an individual.
00:09:22You see the cub when it's two months old.
00:09:27And then you see it grow to almost a year and a half.
00:09:34And then one fine day, you know that cub is going to leave.
00:09:51I really feel emotional.
00:09:55I just hope that he makes it wherever he goes.
00:10:17The number of young tigers searching for new territory is rising.
00:10:25Thanks to increased protection, there are now over 3,600 tigers across 54 reserves.
00:10:36But space in these is limited.
00:10:42So a third of India's tigers must live outside protected areas.
00:10:50Here, they find less wild prey, but plenty of easy meals.
00:11:06And that's bad news for farmers.
00:11:13But there are simple things that can be done to help.
00:11:16And there's someone who's willing to try.
00:11:24Dr. Bilal Habib, from the Wildlife Institute of India,
00:11:28is the scientific consultant for Disney Nature's Tiger.
00:11:33He's one of the country's top tiger experts and loves solving problems.
00:11:41Bilal has come to Maharashtra in central India,
00:11:45the heart of tiger country.
00:11:50This is a place where there's a lot of conflict.
00:11:53A lot of cattle are being killed.
00:11:56And these cattles are actually lifeline for these villagers,
00:11:59because it's their livelihood.
00:12:02Today, Bilal is testing out his latest idea once he makes it through the traffic.
00:12:15It's an unusual approach to help cut the numbers of cows lost to tigers.
00:12:26Sometimes, you only find the way forward by looking behind.
00:12:40Bilal and his team are painting eyes on cow's tail ends,
00:12:46while trying not to get kicked.
00:12:48Bilal habriskitq.
00:12:51Bilal.
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00:12:54Bilal.
00:12:58Pilgeral.
00:12:58Bilal.
00:12:59Bilal that's a white success?
00:13:01Bilal will look brandy as someone who has!
00:13:20It's hoped the eyes will fool tigers into thinking they're being watched.
00:13:30Dalal and his crew have now painted hundreds of rear ends.
00:13:37And it seems to be working.
00:13:42The number of attacks has fallen dramatically.
00:13:49There's a village where one of the tigers was very active.
00:13:53And people have lost most of the cattle to that particular individual.
00:13:58As soon as we painted the cattle with eyes, this tiger immediately shifted.
00:14:06Probably tiger realized that there's a cattle now who can see on both sides.
00:14:11Who can see from the front and who can see from the back.
00:14:17And the next time when we went to that village, every person came with cattle for painting.
00:14:23They said, oh, please paint our cattle.
00:14:25It's good.
00:14:26It's helping us.
00:14:29Balal now plans to roll out this simple idea across the whole of India.
00:14:42For the last ten years, Balal has also been involved with another project.
00:14:46But on a very different scale.
00:14:51He's come with Disney's cameraman Kalyan and remote camera expert Suman Raju to check on its progress.
00:15:01It all started a decade ago when Balal was asked to solve a major problem.
00:15:11Young tigers looking for a new territory struggle to find their way between reserves, which are often hundreds of miles
00:15:20apart.
00:15:23They face many obstacles on their journey.
00:15:38But there's one barrier that's toughest of all.
00:15:48Highways.
00:16:00Built over a hundred years ago, the NH-44 is India's oldest highway.
00:16:08Spanning the length of the entire country.
00:16:14We have roads, we have a lot of traffic, which actually make impossible for these animals to go from one
00:16:23place to other place.
00:16:26Some tigers travel thousands of miles.
00:16:30But when they meet the highway, they have to turn back.
00:16:47Balal's solution was simple.
00:16:51To lift the road up to allow the tigers to travel underneath.
00:16:57Creating a wildlife corridor.
00:17:01It cost two and a half billion dollars.
00:17:07It's the world's biggest wildlife underpass.
00:17:11With nine elevated sections.
00:17:15And it's saving the lives of countless tigers.
00:17:25When I stand there and look on those massive structures, which our country has built for the tigers, to walk
00:17:35from one side of the forest to the other side, it really feels emotional.
00:17:40It's not that bad.
00:17:44Galeon and Suman have been capturing close-up shots of tigers using the underpass.
00:17:52Wow.
00:17:54Amazing, yeah?
00:17:55Yeah.
00:17:56There are now over 200 tiger crossings every year.
00:18:05So imagine that vehicles going on top.
00:18:09And there are tigers which are moving beneath these vehicles.
00:18:15And neither the lorry drivers nor the tigers know that at the same place at the same time.
00:18:20So that's what the dream was.
00:18:22And it's, it's, it's amazing.
00:18:36Pooja has come to help Suman capture footage of a very special tigress.
00:18:46Amazing vantage point.
00:18:48Absolutely.
00:18:49And this is the best place to set up camera trap.
00:18:53What's unusual about this tigress is that she lives in a city.
00:19:01Bhopal in central India, home to 2.5 million people.
00:19:11Like any modern city, by day, it's a noisy, bustling metropolis.
00:19:22But as most of the town's inhabitants head home, another resident is heading out.
00:19:31In a patch of forest that extends into the middle of the city, a young tigress is patrolling
00:19:39her territory.
00:19:50In the seven years she's lived here, she's figured out how to live alongside people.
00:19:56Now.
00:20:05This tigress is pretty much a resident of the city, but she's an invisible resident.
00:20:11She's crossing fences.
00:20:13She's walking on roads.
00:20:14She's in farmlands, but she's never seen by anyone.
00:20:17And that just shows an incredible adaptation.
00:20:20She's perfected that skill of avoiding people.
00:20:23And it's amazing that in all the years that she's been here, she hasn't hurt anyone.
00:20:28And she's just going about her life.
00:20:31The tigress only travels at night and returns to her cave before the city wakes up.
00:20:48Suman has been following this tigress for two years.
00:20:52His data is helping the forest department to understand how she lives.
00:21:00Suman was drawn here by the idea of documenting the lifestyle of an urban tiger.
00:21:12Bhopal has a special place for tiger.
00:21:16No other city you could see tiger moving so close to people.
00:21:21This is really fascinating to me.
00:21:28A modern city may not seem like tiger habitat, but Bhopal has everything a tiger needs.
00:21:40It sits alongside Rattapani Wildlife Sanctuary, where she can hunt and take cover.
00:21:50There are man-made reservoirs, so the tigress will never go thirsty.
00:21:58And she sleeps in sandstone caves in the hills above the city.
00:22:08As long as she doesn't harm anyone, her human neighbors are happy for the tigress to share their home.
00:22:20I think the people of Bhopal are really proud of having tigers here.
00:22:23And it's so unusual because it's a predator and everywhere else people fear them.
00:22:27But here they're so proud of having her in their backyard.
00:22:32The city loves the tigress and is taking major steps to protect her.
00:22:40The forest department employs 40 people to keep tabs on her.
00:22:46Each evening roads are closed in her territory to allow her safe passage.
00:22:53A network of CCTV towers tracks her movements.
00:22:59In charge of operations is divisional forest officer Alec Patak.
00:23:07Yes, please go ahead, put camera traps there.
00:23:12I love the tigress very, very much.
00:23:16She is very delicate, nice, beautiful, I should say.
00:23:24People of Bhopal feel very proud and very happy also to have tigers in the vicinity.
00:23:32I think we'll try to press the trap here.
00:23:35Pooja and Suman are now deploying extra remote cameras across her territory to see if the tigress has had cubs.
00:23:45The whole city is hoping to hear the patter of tiny paws.
00:23:54All across India, the tiger occupies a special place in people's hearts.
00:24:02For a lot of people in India, tiger, which is also called as Vagboba, is dev, which means he's god.
00:24:09A lot of people worship it, especially in the rural areas, for its strength and power and the fact that
00:24:15it rules the forest.
00:24:19Tigers have lived with people for thousands of years.
00:24:26They're adored like royalty.
00:24:32And celebrated with festivals.
00:24:37It's this connection that allows humans and tigers to live side by side.
00:24:44I think India stands out amongst most nations in the world for the kind of tolerance that the people of
00:24:50the country show towards wildlife,
00:24:52especially tigers.
00:24:56Tigers living around the edges of reserves soon learn to avoid humans.
00:25:15By day, they rest out of sight.
00:25:27If they hear someone coming, they stay hidden.
00:25:35They only come out at dusk when the people have left.
00:25:39If they hear someone coming, they stay hidden.
00:25:52They see humans as prey.
00:25:53In fact, they're quite afraid of people, of anything standing on two feet.
00:25:58They're afraid of them.
00:26:02But tragic accidents can occur.
00:26:07When villagers work late in the forest, a young, inexperienced tiger may mistake them for prey animals.
00:26:17When a human being crouched down, from a tiger's point of view, that looks like prey species.
00:26:23Almost all human deaths because of tigers are accidental deaths.
00:26:33In some parts of India, the rise in tiger numbers is causing a dramatic spike in attacks.
00:26:44Increasing tiger numbers is good news, you know, it's a conservation success story for the world.
00:26:49But a lot of people pay a price for this rise in tiger numbers.
00:26:56What is at stake is the years of tolerance that people have shown towards these tigers.
00:27:08While filming on the edges of tiger reserves, Pooja and Kalyan have witnessed the efforts of the people working to
00:27:14keep both villagers and tigers safe.
00:27:25The forest department primary response team is the first to be called when there's a problem tiger.
00:27:34Forest guard Shetal Thakri has been doing the job for six years.
00:27:43Today, her team has been called to a village where someone has been killed.
00:28:04The primary response team is sent in to identify the problem tiger so it can be captured and taken into
00:28:11captivity.
00:28:15With the tiger still nearby, Shetal's priority is to keep the people safe.
00:28:32In this area, on the outskirts of Todoba National Park, the number of tigers has quadrupled in just ten years.
00:29:02The tigers are most active at night.
00:29:11Shital and her team sweep the surrounding area, hoping to push the tiger away from the
00:29:17village. It's a dangerous job. They need to identify which tiger they're dealing
00:29:34with. Rakesh, the team biologist, studies images caught on remote cameras. Every tiger
00:29:45has a unique set of stripes. By comparing them, he can see it's a young male called P2.
00:30:07The presence of the team overnight helps the villagers feel safer. The rising number
00:30:15of tigers is raising fears.
00:30:44Chital lives alone, a long, long, quiet and long, long, long, long, long, long
00:30:47a long way from home.
00:30:49At times like this, she misses her family more than ever.
00:31:25Shital's family wants her to return to the village, but she feels a strong calling for
00:31:32this work.
00:31:55Shital is proud to be one of the few women doing her job.
00:32:20Back at the village, Shital and her team are under pressure to remove the problem tiger.
00:32:32And when a tiger needs capturing, the person to call is wildlife vet Dr. Ravi Coburghadi.
00:32:41When he's not catching tigers, Ravi is caring for orphaned animals at his treatment center,
00:32:48like this baby sloth bear.
00:33:00When the call comes through, Ravi has to mobilize his rapid rescue team.
00:33:09They've been asked to tranquilize the problem tiger, P2, and take him away from the village.
00:33:19P2 will be their 50th tiger capture, if they can find him.
00:33:28We have to think like a tiger.
00:33:31This is the big lesson that I learned from the rescue of tigers.
00:33:37I must know what will be the next step of the tiger.
00:34:01Ravi and his team are searching for a single tiger, known as P2.
00:34:11He's a moving needle and a giant haystack.
00:34:18The plan is to capture P2 and take him into captivity.
00:34:23But it's not going to be easy.
00:34:30Two days later, Ravi hears that P2 has killed a cow on the edge of a farm.
00:34:39They plan to stake out the location, hoping that P2 returns to feed.
00:34:47Ravi's assistant, AJ, will be using a dart gun to tranquilize the tiger.
00:34:58Ravi and AJ settle in for the night.
00:35:06P2 is always clever man.
00:35:09That's why he's the king of jungle.
00:35:12So we must think to overcome their cleverness.
00:35:18Now we are just waiting and watching all around us.
00:35:33It was a long wait with nothing to show for it.
00:35:40Yesterday's night is too hard for us.
00:35:44And the tiger animal has not come.
00:35:46So let us see.
00:35:48Again we try.
00:35:50Try again, try again.
00:35:52We'll get success.
00:35:55A week later, the team catch a break.
00:35:58There's been a sighting of P2 and they rush to the spot.
00:36:09At last, they get their first glimpse of P2.
00:36:18They need to dart his back end, so they must wait until he's facing the right way.
00:36:34They are so frightened.
00:36:37You cannot get caught on a target.
00:36:39If you are looking closer the tiger, he is headed and off.
00:36:42You are looking closer.
00:36:43It's a sighting of the tiger.
00:36:46The king of the tiger is a risk.
00:36:49It's a good shot.
00:36:50I don't want to get caught up.
00:36:50The man is a good shot.
00:36:51I do not want to get the position.
00:36:52But I do not get caught up.
00:36:52I do not get caught up.
00:36:58P2 slips back into the forest.
00:37:01Oh, my God.
00:37:06They've missed their chance.
00:37:14But overnight, a remote camera has captured a fresh image.
00:37:22The team picks up the trail.
00:37:33P2 is only 20 yards away.
00:37:43They just need him to turn around.
00:37:50They're swimming in a little bit.
00:38:05Bullseye.
00:38:13Weighing around 500 pounds, it takes the whole crew to carry P2 to the transport cage.
00:38:37It's a huge relief for Ravi's team, and a welcome sight for the villagers.
00:38:52We revive it, and now he's very comfortable, relaxed.
00:38:57It's a very good tiger, it's around two and a half years old.
00:39:01It's a sub-adult and male, and massive male also.
00:39:05We see the villagers, they are very happy, because they think that they have solved the problem.
00:39:19The community comes out to see the tiger off.
00:39:30On the three-hour journey to the treatment center, Ravi feels conflicted.
00:39:38I just feel very sorry when I put the tiger in the cage.
00:39:43When I saw the tiger in the field, I darted him, and I sent it to the zoo.
00:39:48At that time, our team will get very sad that we just earned the freedom of that particular fellow.
00:40:06The treatment center is just a temporary holding place for P2.
00:40:12Ravi will now try to find him a permanent home at a zoo.
00:40:21P2 will never return to the wild, but relocating him will help local people remain tolerant of tigers.
00:40:40Not far away, on the eastern edge of Todoba National Park, some other tigers are also being moved to a
00:40:47new home.
00:40:50But for a very different reason.
00:40:55Bilal is planning to do some tiger matchmaking.
00:41:00He's hoping to gather five females from here and introduce them to potential mates.
00:41:14A hundred and twenty miles north in Nexera National Park, tiger numbers are on the rise.
00:41:22But they're mostly males.
00:41:27Male tigers find it easier than females to reach here from far away forests.
00:41:36But without females, the population is doomed.
00:41:42And there's another benefit to Bilal's plan.
00:41:48He's taking the tigresses away from an area where there's lots of people.
00:41:55It's a win-win situation.
00:41:57If we are successful in getting at least five, six females from this particular landscape to the other area,
00:42:03so it's good for everybody, for conservation, for tigers, and for people.
00:42:09It's an ambitious and visionary idea.
00:42:13But first, they have to find the right tiger.
00:42:21They are deliberately looking for a shy tigress, one that will avoid humans and their livestock.
00:42:31But a shy tiger is tricky to catch.
00:42:42Ravi, the vet, and his team are here for the capture.
00:42:49There are clear signs of the tiger.
00:42:53This is the bug mug of a female.
00:42:56But she stays hidden from view.
00:43:10After several days and nights searching, it's proving harder than they thought.
00:43:20If they can't catch the first female, the whole matchmaking project will fail before it's even started.
00:43:30They are so shy, even if they are just resting 10 meters away from you.
00:43:34It's very difficult to spot them.
00:43:36So that makes it very difficult for us to track her and to capture her.
00:43:45It may be months before Bilal has a tigress to move.
00:43:56Pooja and Kalyan are witnessing another impact of rising tiger numbers.
00:44:03More tigers fighting over territory.
00:44:20This young tiger has blundered into the path of a huge male.
00:44:51The older tiger makes it clear they're not welcome.
00:45:01One side usually backs down, but sometimes, the loser can get badly hurt.
00:45:18Pooja and Kalyan have come across a wounded male.
00:45:24Their footage will help forest guards identify the tiger when they report the injury.
00:45:32Look to your right.
00:45:40I'm zoomed in fully, I can see the wound.
00:45:43He's licking the wound right now.
00:45:57Oh, he's limping.
00:45:58Oh God.
00:46:00I think he's quite badly injured.
00:46:08He's limping at the moment and he has these really bad injuries.
00:46:12So, I'm really worried for him because there are lots of tigers here and he's just going
00:46:17to have to fight or leave to be able to survive.
00:46:26He's licking his wounds, but if they don't heal, he's in a real big danger because he has only
00:46:31two options.
00:46:32One is, he just won't be able to hunt and he'll die of starvation.
00:46:38The only other option is that he starts picking easy prey, which is cattle, and that's the
00:46:43start of human wildlife conflict.
00:46:45And usually, that doesn't end well for the tigers.
00:46:51The forest guards will now keep an eye on the tiger, and if necessary, bring it into Ravi's
00:46:57treatment center.
00:47:03For Ravi, the rise in tigers means there are many more cubs to care for.
00:47:10Today, he's looking after a young tigress who's become separated from her mother.
00:47:19She's around five to six months old, but when we observe in the field, she's immaculate,
00:47:26dehydrated, and so weak.
00:47:29So, that's why we rescued from the field and we are monitoring, we are locating the female
00:47:33so that that cub will be reunite with the female, and she will remain in the wild.
00:47:40That will be the happy ending for the female cub.
00:47:48There's good news for P2, the captured tiger.
00:47:53Ravi will soon be sending him to a new home.
00:47:58He's going to one of the world's largest zoos in the city of Nagpur, where he'll share
00:48:04an enclosure with a female tiger.
00:48:12P2, P2, how are you?
00:48:18Don't worry.
00:48:20You will get the big enclosure, get the new females also.
00:48:26Then you will enjoy the life.
00:48:31So, don't worry.
00:48:41P2 is lucky.
00:48:43Roughly half of all tigers leaving protected areas don't make it.
00:48:51A female tiger has been found dead and brought into Ravi's center.
00:49:00He confirms her cause of death and conducts her cremation.
00:49:12The funeral rites reflect the honor and respect hell for every tiger.
00:49:23It's a very black day for us because we lost a full-grown adult tigers due to such unbelievable
00:49:31things that is electrocution.
00:49:33That should not happen.
00:49:39Electrocution is the number one cause of tiger deaths.
00:49:45Electric fencing is often placed around fields to stop wild deer and boar from eating the crops.
00:49:54But the tigers don't see the wires until it's too late.
00:50:04One female can produce four cubs in a year.
00:50:10So, you can imagine the loss of the wild tigers.
00:50:13One female can produce four cubs in a year.
00:50:30To avoid more tiger deaths in the future, the next generation needs to understand more about them.
00:50:39Shital and Rakesh have come to a school on the edge of Tadoba National Park.
00:50:46They're here to share their knowledge of tigers with the kids and teach them what to do if they meet
00:50:53one.
00:50:53If they take the maps of the tiger don't have a direction幅 be among children, then they tell them a
00:51:05word.
00:51:06They've been doing so much for the most important and beneficial people to protect them.
00:51:07Where are they alive and where the tigerم is leading my life and they set them up?
00:51:17If you see, morning I literally shut up withumentary eating your education.
00:51:34Shital hopes the kids will share these safety tips with their friends and families.
00:51:54Lessons over, the class heads out to a patch of degraded forest to help replant the area with trees.
00:52:09When the plants are growing, the shadows will rest under the wild animals.
00:52:21When Shital is seeing the officer, what does it feel?
00:52:25Is it good for you?
00:52:26Yes.
00:52:28Yes.
00:52:31Does it feel good or not?
00:52:33Yes.
00:52:34Yes.
00:52:34Yes.
00:52:36Yes.
00:52:38Yes.
00:52:38Yes.
00:52:40Yes.
00:52:42Yes.
00:52:44Yes.
00:52:49After six months trying, Bilal has finally caught a tigress.
00:52:57She's on her way to meet the lonely males waiting for her at Nexira National Park.
00:53:05If she makes a match, she'll help repopulate the reserve.
00:53:13Instead of having to find her own territory, she's taking the easy way, hitching a ride.
00:53:25In Nexira, she'll have lots of space.
00:53:30And every chance of meeting a mate.
00:53:45The tigress has been tranquilized so that Bilal and the vet team can give her a health check
00:53:50and attach a GPS collar before she's released.
00:54:03The collar will enable Bilal to track the tiger's movements as she starts to explore her new territory.
00:54:12It will stay attached for the next year and will then be remotely triggered to fall off by itself.
00:54:23Ravi, the vet, is on hand to monitor the tiger's condition and make sure she is fit for release.
00:54:34They check her weight and measurements to add to their growing database of tigers.
00:55:05It's the first project of its kind in India.
00:55:07And it's attracting a lot of attention.
00:55:16The tiger will be released by the state forest minister.
00:55:22Basically, this is the final day. This is, we can say, the marriage day.
00:55:25See, all peoples are very happy because we are going to introduce the female in the area of the males.
00:55:42Five years of planning have all come down to this moment.
00:55:50The next ten minutes, she's going to be out there in the wild.
00:56:00It's time to release the tigress into her new home.
00:56:31Purpose of the
00:56:57Finally we did it.
00:57:02As she just come out from the cage, she is so happy in my sense, that she is going
00:57:10to the wild.
00:57:14This is even for her.
00:57:15She may have the cute, cute tigress, cubs, so she will enjoy.
00:57:23This is a place of hope for her, where she has a higher chance of breeding, having a territory
00:57:30of her own, having a litter of her own, having a home of her own.
00:57:50Over the next few months, Bilal and his team follow the tiger around the clock.
00:57:59Using signals from the collar, they track her on the ground and also from space, mapping
00:58:09her every move.
00:58:15The tigress is settling in well.
00:58:26She hasn't strayed into any villages, and she's got company.
00:58:39It's now four months, and this female is doing perfectly fine.
00:58:44She has established her territory.
00:58:53She has been seen many times with the male, so we hope that she has also made it a couple
00:58:58of times.
00:59:00And we hope that in coming days, she's going to litter, she's going to produce hang ones
00:59:05in this new territory.
00:59:08So far, so good.
00:59:10The move is a success.
00:59:16Over the next year, four more female tigers will be brought here to help boost the population.
00:59:25So this was a dream, and it has come true.
00:59:28And we can continue to follow these tigers in Nakhzera and see how this population is going
00:59:33to do in the next five or ten years.
00:59:46Meanwhile, Ravi has come to see P2 in his new home, Gorawada Zoo, one of the largest in
00:59:53the world.
00:59:58P2 now has a huge natural enclosure, and will soon be joined by a new female.
01:00:14It's a very good morning, because I'm just very happy to see P2 tiger.
01:00:27Having the 60 acres enclosure is a very good space for any tiger.
01:00:39P2 has a new role as an ambassador for tigers.
01:00:53Everyone can visit him, and everyone can know him.
01:00:59If you see the tiger for a while, you will never forget it.
01:01:05Because it's so beautiful, so majestic.
01:01:13P2 may never go back to the wild, but he will help inspire the next generation to care about
01:01:20the future of tigers.
01:01:31Pooja and Kalyan also want to inspire people to think about tigers differently.
01:01:38They've come to a village close to Todoba Tiger Reserve.
01:01:55Pooja and Kalyan have created a short film that they're about to screen for the first time.
01:02:04A crowd of over 300 have gathered for the show, including forest guard Shital and her team.
01:02:15Pooja says, Hello, I'm the name of Pooja.
01:02:44The story is narrated in the local language, Marathi, from the point of view of the tiger.
01:03:03For the villagers, it's the first time they're seeing images of tiger family life.
01:03:13The film shows the cubs coming to grips with their jungle home and the challenges they face growing up.
01:03:36The film also gives villagers tips on how to stay safe in the forest.
01:03:56I'm really overwhelmed. Just looking at the crowd, looking at how hooked to the screen they were.
01:04:07The people who came here to watch the film have real life problems.
01:04:12They have interactions with tigers on a daily basis.
01:04:17If this film even saves one life, I think we've done our job.
01:04:34And the message is spreading.
01:04:40In some places, a new attitude to tigers is creating surprising opportunities.
01:04:46Bilal is on his way to the village of Alijandja.
01:05:01Coexistence will only be possible if this is economically beneficial to the local people who share their landscape with these
01:05:11large predators.
01:05:15Instead of battling with the wildlife on their doorstep, the community here is embracing it.
01:05:27In the first rewilding project of its kind in India, farmers are paid to keep their cattle off the grasslands.
01:05:40This encourages wild animals, which naturally attract tigers, who bring in tourists.
01:05:59The local guide Arvind now makes a living from taking tourists on nature walks in the landscape.
01:06:18A small eco-lodge is also creating jobs for local people.
01:06:27A small field that are not in business.
01:06:34We have multiple activities, if it has a great day.
01:06:36In the first place, we will not be able to preserve the jungle beyond avid.
01:06:40We are also growing up the jungle, because we are loving to them.
01:06:41In the first place, we will be able to preserve the jungle as our village.
01:06:45Bilal has been helping since the project started in 2015.
01:06:52He's loved seeing how local attitudes towards wildlife have changed.
01:06:59Imagine when this was not a nature conservancy.
01:07:02So the farmers were trying to protect this land from crop breeding deers.
01:07:09So they were considered as pests.
01:07:12Today the same farmer wants to see deer in his land because that's given more money.
01:07:17So this is how the landscape has converted a pest into resource.
01:07:24The more deer, the more tigers.
01:07:28In this village, the current rise in tiger numbers is a cause for celebration.
01:07:35As a tiger growing, the population is growing.
01:07:40In this village, we are growing.
01:07:46This is the first example of rewilding farmland closer to a protected area in India.
01:07:54So if this is successful, there can be hundreds and hundreds of niche conservancies in India.
01:08:05Back in Bhopal, home to the urban Tigris, Poojan Suman are checking the remote cameras.
01:08:14They're hoping to see the first images of her cubs.
01:08:20Let's see what we've got.
01:08:21Yeah.
01:08:26Oh my God.
01:08:30Followed by the cubs.
01:08:32Wow.
01:08:34The first cub coming out.
01:08:38Wow.
01:08:41The urban tigris has four cubs, now aged around five months.
01:08:49Oh my God.
01:08:50The one after the other.
01:08:51Yeah.
01:08:52All of them are peeping their heads into the fence.
01:08:55Wow.
01:08:57She just like squeezed in, you know.
01:08:59She's too big for.
01:09:00Yeah.
01:09:01So cute actually.
01:09:02way. It's teaching them how to come out from the fence. Isn't it so lovely, right? And
01:09:09they're so quick learners.
01:09:12They look pretty healthy.
01:09:13Yeah, they're absolutely healthy. Such a beautiful shot we got.
01:09:24Bhopal's tigress is bringing up the next generation of urban tigers. They're now learning
01:09:31how to be street-smart cubs.
01:09:36She's raising these four cubs, and she's actually showing them her territory. She's showing them
01:09:42where they can hunt, where they can find water.
01:09:53They're showing these cubs how to move in the landscape, how to stay secretive and not get
01:10:01exposed to the people, showing how to survive inside the city. Such a great mother it is, actually.
01:10:17And it's not just tigers appearing on the remote cameras. Bhopal has secret residents of all shapes and sizes.
01:10:28Some neighbors can be prickly, with no respect for privacy.
01:10:44At night, all the animals are on the move, and trying to make it home before sunrise.
01:10:53Better keep up with mom.
01:10:58Some are naturally curious.
01:11:03Especially the tiger cubs.
01:11:17Oops.
01:11:23The cubs will continue to learn from their mother, until it's time to find their own territories.
01:11:31One day, they'll show their own young how to survive close to a city.
01:11:37And the knowledge will be passed down through the generations.
01:11:42I feel like that is what India is going to need in future, like tigers that show adaptations to living
01:11:48around people.
01:11:50And she's just showing us how tigers can do that.
01:11:54She's the hope for the future.
01:12:05After five years of filming, it's time for the Disney Nature crew to pack up and head home.
01:12:13They leave knowing that India's tigers are on the rise.
01:12:20And as they move into human areas, some tigers are showing how it's possible to thrive in a world of
01:12:30people.
01:12:32It's a challenge, and they're doing it beautifully. They're doing it in a most amazing manner to live with humans.
01:12:44And people are also playing their part to ensure this unique relationship lasts into the future.
01:13:00I think there is always a space in the heart of the people to live with tigers, to share the
01:13:07landscape with these magnificent carnivores.
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