tiger, ST-15, and a cub of ST-27, approximately two years old, have been missing from Sariska for the past one month. Neither of these male tigers is appearing on camera traps, nor have any pugmarks of them been found. Although the tiger monitoring team of the forest department claims that pugmarks of the cub were found in the Akbarpur range, I doubt the authenticity of this claim. The presence of 56 tigers in Sariska may be considered an achievement. However, the disappearance of a tiger that controlled the largest territory in this forest is extremely concerning. This can only be described as a failure of the monitoring system. After the 2008 relocation, the tiger population in this forest has grown at a very slow pace and has now reached 56, comprising 11 male tigers, 18 females, and 27 cubs. This success will continue only when the patrolling team knows the whereabouts of every tiger, and the reason for any disappearance is also clearly established. Here, an increase in numbers can be called a success, but a disappearance can only be seen as a failure of the system. What is surprising is that ST-21 and ST-25 are now moving around in the territory of the missing tiger. This is not a rapid process; it takes at least two months or more for such a change to occur. An additional forest team is engaged in searching for both these tigers, but success still seems distant. Some questions arise in the mind: Have both tigers fallen into the trap of a poaching gang? Were they involved in a territorial fight? Have these tigers moved to some other area within the forest? Finding a tiger in this forest is not an extremely difficult task. On the contrary, this forest is a wildlife island where a tiger either dies or is found in some corner of the same forest. The possibility of it leaving via a corridor is zero, because there is no connectivity here. #sariskatigerreserve #tigermonitoring #tigermissing #bigcatsafety #tigerprotection