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Initially comprising 1,026 km 2 (396 sq mi) of the Palamu Tiger Reserve, an additional 226 km 2 (87 sq mi) was added to the park in 1989 and 63 km 2 (24 sq mi) of the Mahuadanr Wolf Sanctuary. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Betla was one of the first national parks in India to become a tiger reserve under Project Tiger , in 1974. [ 5 ]
The tiger reserves in India were set up as a part of Project Tiger initiated in 1973 and are administered by the National Tiger Conservation Authority of Government of India. As of December 2024, there are 57 protected areas that have been designated as tiger reserves. As of 2023, there were 3,682 wild tigers in India, which is almost 75% of ...
The sanctuary is located 20 km east of Bhandara town. The nearest rail and airport head is Nagpur. Regular buses at an interval of 30 minutes are available from Bhandara Bus Stand from 5:00 am to 8:00 pm. The sanctuary is open for visitors from sunrise to sunset. There are many hotels and resorts located near Bhandara town.
Nagpur is surrounded by many tiger reserves and acts as a gateway, hence called Tiger capital of India. [221] Tiger reserves such as Pench Tiger Reserve is situated around 100 km from the city and can be reached through NH44 in Nagpur Jabalpur road. Tadoba National Park is situated south of the city and is around 141 km from the city.
Now the number of tigers has soared up steadily. The sanctuary now has three resident females rearing 10 cubs.," [5] As per the 2015-16 tiger estimation report, there are five or six tigers in the Umred Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary. [5]
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
This tiger reserve covers a total area of 2,829.38 square kilometres (1,092.43 sq mi), including a core or critical tiger habitat of 2,049.2 square kilometres (791.2 sq mi), which consists of the Guru Ghasidas National Park and the Tamor Pingla Wildlife Sanctuary, along with a buffer zone of 780.15 square kilometres (301.22 sq mi).
2 National parks. 3 Wildlife sanctuaries. 4 Elephant reserves. 5 Tiger reserves. ... Anamalai Tiger Reserve: Coimbatore, Tiruppur: 958.59 km 2 (370.11 sq mi) 2008