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Jim Corbett National Park is a national park in India located in the Nainital district of Uttarakhand state. The first national park in India , it was established in 1936 during the British Raj and named Hailey National Park after William Malcolm Hailey , a governor of the United Provinces in which it was then located.
Edward James Corbett CIE VD (25 July 1875 – 19 April 1955) was an Anglo-Indian hunter, tracker, naturalist and author.He was frequently called upon by the Government of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh to kill man-eating tigers and leopards that were attacking people in the nearby villages of the Kumaon and Garhwal Divisions.
Jim Corbett, the famous man-eater hunter and a great environmentalist lived at Choti Haldwani, 2 km west of Kaladhungi on Ramnagar road for most years of his life. His house has now been converted into a museum in his memory by the government, known as 'Jim Corbett Museum', a must-see for the tourist going to Nainital taking Kaladhunigi ...
India's first national park was established in 1936, now known as Jim Corbett National Park, in Uttarakhand. In 1970, India had only five national parks. In 1972, India enacted the Wildlife Protection Act and Project Tiger in 1973 to safeguard the habitats of conservation reliant species and currently there are 106 national parks in India ...
They are located at different altitudes varying from 800 to 5400 metres. The oldest national park on the Indian sub-continent, Jim Corbett National Park, is a major tourist attraction. [56] Garhwal Himalaya mountain range in Kedarnath, Uttarakhand
Ramnagar (Kumaoni: RÄmnagar) is a town and municipal board in the Nainital district of Kumaon in the state of Uttarakhand, India. [1] It is located approximately 65 kilometres (40 mi) from Nainital, the headquarters of the district.
Corbett saw the movie and claimed that the best actor was the tiger. [7] In 1986, the BBC produced a docudrama titled Man-Eaters of India with Frederick Treves in the role of Jim Corbett. An IMAX movie, India: Kingdom of the Tiger, based on Corbett's books, was made in 2002. Corbett was played by Christopher Heyerdahl.
The Government of Uttarakhand also known as the State Government of Uttarakhand, or locally as State Government, is the subnational government of the Indian state of Uttarakhand and its 13 Districts. It consists of an executive branch , led by the Governor of Uttarakhand , a legislative branch led by the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand and a ...