A team of experts, including veterinarians, will visit Pandharkawda for a recce of the area and help the forest department finalise the strategy to safely rescue the cubs of tigress T1.

"With the sighting of both cubs in a camera trap on November 15, we are very happy, because this evidence is a scientific slap in the face of some pseudo activists, who have been making baseless comments against forest department staff, who are taking efforts to track them," said a forest department official.