Saturday 10 August 2013

Ranthambhore National Park

The Indian tiger populace estimate currently stands at 1706. Project Tiger, which started off with nine reserves covering an area of 16,339 sq. km and 268 tigers, now has 39 reserves and over one percent of the country’s geographical area dedicated to the Panthera Tigris. In this March 23, 2000 file photo, an Indian tiger looks out from a cover of straw grass at the Ranthambhore National Park,
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 Ranthambore National Park  or Ranthambhore is one of the largest national parks in northern India. It is situated in Sawai Madhopur district of southeastern Rajasthan, about 110 km north east of Kota and 130 km south east of Jaipur, which is also the nearest airport. The nearest town and railway station is at Sawai Madhopur, about 11 km away; Kota is another convenient station as many trains stop there.

  Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh.


The National Tiger Conservation Authority has been strengthened and decentralised with three Regional Offices at Nagpur, Bengaluru and Guwahati now. Approval has also been given to five more reserves in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan and Karnataka. In photo: B2, one of the most photographed tigers, at the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh.

 Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve


The report also recognised Ramnagar in Uttar Pradesh (which sits close to the entrance of Corbett National Park), the towns of Balgahat and Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh (where the Kanha and Pench National Park is located), Kolkata and areas spanning south to the edge of the Sunderbans in Bengal, and Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve in the Western Ghats as other hotspots of illegal tiger trade

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