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The Guru Ghasidas-Tamor Pingla Tiger Reserve received final approval for its notification from the National Tiger Conservation Authority in October 2021. [1] This designation positions it as the third largest tiger reserve in the nation, following the Nagarjunsagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve in Andhra Pradesh and the Manas Tiger Reserve in Assam. [2]
Tamor Pingla Wildlife Sanctuary is located in Surajpur District, Chhattisgarh, in central India. [1] [2] It was declared as a wildlife sanctuary in 1978.In 2021, National Tiger Conservation Authority has approved the Chhattisgarh government's proposal to declare the combined areas of the Guru Ghasidas National Park and Tamor Pingla Wildlife Sanctuary as a Guru Ghasidas - Tamor Pingla Tiger ...
[3] [4] [5] The National Park is named after Guru Ghasidas. [4] It shared five tigers with Madhya Pradesh in 2010. [ 6 ] In addition, considering that what used to be Surguja State is now part of Chhattisgarh, and that the state has a district called Koriya , this overall area was the last known territory of the Asiatic cheetah in India.
By the late 1980s, the initial nine reserves covering an area of 9,115 km 2 (3,519 sq mi) had been increased to 15 reserves covering an area of 24,700 km 2 (9,500 sq mi). More than 1100 tigers were estimated to inhabit the reserves by 1984. [8] By 1997, 23 tiger reserves encompassed an area of 33,000 km 2 (13,000 sq mi). [9]
There is also Guru Ghasidas National Park. [13] [14] It is designated as Guru Ghasidas - Tamor Pingla Tiger Reserve. The natural environment of Koriya includes many dense forests, mountains, rivers and waterfalls, and is known for the rich mineral deposits. Coal is found in abundance in this part of the country.
Guru Ghasidas - Tamor Pingla Tiger Reserve; I. Indravati National Park; K. Kanger Valley National Park; S. Sitanadi Wildlife Sanctuary; T. Tamor Pingla Wildlife Sanctuary
An elephant reserve and a tiger reserve. Located high in the Cardamom Hills and Pandalam Hills of the south Western Ghats. The sanctuary surrounds Periyar Lake, a reservoir that formed when the Mullaperiyar Dam was erected in 1895. The park is made up of tropical evergreen and moist deciduous forests, grasslands and stands of eucalyptus
About 6 percent of the ecoregion's area is within protected areas, comprising 6,720 square kilometres (2,590 sq mi) in 1997. The largest are Palamau Tiger Reserve and Guru Ghasidas - Tamor Pingla Tiger Reserve. [27] Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary, Jharkhand (630 km 2) Gautam Buddha Wildlife Sanctuary, Bihar (110 km 2)