An archival pic of Bali. Pic/Mohammed Junaid Ismail

Jai might still be missing but his son Bali has risen from the depths of the jungle. The latter, who went missing in June last year, was finally sighted on Friday at Pench Tiger Reserve by a wildlife lover. It seems that the tiger walked almost 90-100 km from Umred Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary (58 kilometres from Nagpur) to the Nagalwadi range (Madhya Pradesh), that is part of the Pench Tiger Reserve buffer zone. This basically means Bali crossed two national highways and a state highway. The incident goes to show one more time how the movement of dispersing tigers has proved that the conservation of wildlife corridors connecting national parks is crucial to conserving the species.