The tigress was captured on Thursday around 5 pm from the Nagalwadi forest range of Pench Tiger Reserve in central India, following which she was transported to the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve. After the road journey, the wild cat was taken by boat into the Koyna Wildlife Sanctuary

A three-and-a-half-year-old tigress, T-123, has been translocated from Pench Tiger Reserve to the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra as part of a conservation programme to strengthen the tiger population in the Western Ghats. This marks the third tigress shifted to Sahyadri under the initiative, following earlier translocations from Tadoba