tiger reserves of india india mapping series
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Tiger Reserves of India
India Mapping Series
Lecture 35
Santosh Choudhary
CSE 2018
Insta: little_simple_buddha
Tiger Reserves
• There are 50 tiger reserves in India, which are governed by Project Tiger which is administrated by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA).
• India is home to 80 percent of tigers in the world. In 2006, there were 1,411 tigers which increased to 1,706 in 2010, 2,226 in 2014 and 2967 in 2018.
• The Indian increase played a big role in driving up global populations as well; the number of wild tigers globally rose from 3,159 in 2010 to 3,890 in 2016 according to World Wildlife Fund and Global Tiger Forum
Arunachal Pradesh tiger reserves
• Corbett Tiger Reserve
• Rajaji Tiger reserve
Uttarakhand tiger reserves
Arunachal Pradesh tiger reserves
• Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve
• Sariska Tiger Reserve
• Mukandra Hills Tiger Reserve
Rajasthan tiger reserves
Tiger Reserves in Maharashtra
•Tipeshwar Tiger Reserve
▪ The rivers such as Purna, Krishna, Bhima, and Tapti flow
through the sanctuary.
▪ Due to the presence of a sufficient quantity of water, it is
also popularly known as Green Oasis of Maharashtra.
▪ Melghat Tiger Reserve
▪ Sahyadri Tiger Reserve
▪ Nawegaon Nagzira Tiger Reserve
▪ Bor Tiger Reserve
Dnyanganga Wildlife Sanctuary
Tipeshwar Tiger Reserve
bor tiger reserve
Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve
Tiger Reserves of West Bengal
• Buxa tiger reserve on Gangetic Plains
• Sundarban Tiger reserve -national park, tiger reserve, and biosphere reserve,
UNESCO World Heritage Site , Ramsar Site
• A deep sea canyon called Swatch of no Ground Bengal Fan, also known as
the Ganges Fan, is the largest submarine fan on Earth
Tiger Reserves in Odisha
•Similipal Tiger Reserve (its name from the abundance of Semul or red silk
cotton trees)
•Satkosia Tiger Reserve - Mahanadi River passes through this TR, part of
the Mahanadi elephant reserve, meeting point of two bio-geographic regions
of India; the Deccan Peninsula and the Eastern Ghats.
Tiger reserves in UP
• Pilbhit tiger reserve
• Dudhwa national park n the Terai belt of marshy grasslands of northern Uttar
Pradesh. Comprises
• Dudhwa National Park,
• Kishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary
• Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary.
• Amangarh Tiger Reserve
Amangarh Tiger Reserve
MP tiger reserves (6)
• Kanha Tiger Reserve (first tiger reserve in India to officially introduce a mascot, "Bhoorsingh the Barasingha”)
• Pench Tiger Reserve (has the highest number of tigers among all the protected areas in India, lies in Satpura range.)
• Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve (highest density of tiger population)
• Satpura Tiger Reserve (lies in Satpura range, has Pandava caves, dhoopgarh peak, bee fall)
• Sanjay-Dubri Tiger Reserve(on the border of MP and Chhattisgarh, renamed to "Guru Ghasidas National Park" by the Government of Chhattisgarh, located in Narmada valley)
• Panna Tiger Reserve (area submerging in ken betwa river interlinking project)
Telangana tiger reserves
Amrabad Tiger Reserve
• for first time re-introduced ‘mouse deer’ in the forests of Nallamalla in Amrabad Tiger
Reserve (ATR) bred at Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad.
•Dominated by the Chenchus tribe.
• It contains ruins of the ancient Nagarjuna ViswaVidyalayam run by the great Buddhist
scholar Nagarjunacharya (150 AD)
• largest tiger reserve in the country. Earler, it was part of 'Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam Tiger
reserve' but post-bifurcation, the northern part of the reserve is vested with Telangana state
and renamed as 'Amrabad Tiger Reserve’.
Kawal Tiger Reserve
•This sanctuary is catchment for the rivers Godavari and Kadam
Andhra Pradesh TR/WS/BR
• Nagarjunsagar-Srisailam Tiger
Reserve ( It is Largest Tiger
reserve of India+ Smallest is Bor
TR located in the valley of the
Wardha river ,Maharashtra)
Assam tiger reserves
• Kaziranga Tiger Reserve
• Manas Tiger Reserve
• Nmaeri Tiger Reserve
• Orang Tiger Reserve
Arunachal Pradesh tiger reserves
• Dampa Tiger Reserve
Mizoram tiger reserves
Arunachal Pradesh tiger reserves
• Namdappha Tiger Reserve
• Pakke or Pakhui Tiger
Reserve
• Kamlang Tiger Reserve
Arunachal Pradesh tiger reserves
Pakke tiger reserve
• Also known as Pakhui Tiger Reserve
• bounded by Bhareli or Kameng
River in the west and north, and
by Pakke River in the east.
• adjoins reserve forests and
Assam's Nameri National Park. To the
west, it is bounded by Doimara
Reserve Forest with an area of
216 km2 (83 sq mi) and Eaglenest
Wildlife Sanctuary
Namdapha Tiger Reserve
• located in the eastern most corner of
Arunachal Pradesh
• located between the Dapha bum range
of the Mishmi Hills and
the Patkai range
• Namdapha National park established in
the year 1972 was declared national
park and a tiger reserve in the year
1983.
Bihar tiger reserves
• Valmiki Tiger Reserve
Chhattisgarh tiger reserves
• Indravati Tiger Reserve
• Achanakmar Tiger Reserve
• Udanit- Sitanadi Tiger Reserve
Chhattisgarh tiger reserves
Jharkhand tiger reserves
• Palamau Tiger Reserve
Jharkhand tiger reserves
Arunachal Pradesh tiger reserves
• Bandipur Tiger Reserve
• Kali Tiger Reserve
• Nagarhole Tiger Reserve
• Bhadra Tiger Reserve
• Anshi Dandeli Tiger Reserve
• Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple
Wildlife Sanctuary
Karnataka tiger reserves
Tiger reserves in Tamil Nadu
Anamalai Tiger Reserve
• In news: a study in ATR has shown that carbon storage was highest in species-rich
evergreen forest.
Mudumalai Tiger Reserve
• located in Tamil Nadu state at the tri-junction of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
• It is a part of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve along with Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary
(Kerala), Bandipur National Park (Karnataka), Mukurthi National Park and Silent
Valley.
Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve
• dry thorn forest to dry deciduous
• Nation’s first Tiger Sanctuary during 1962
• popularly as River Sanctuary.
Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve
• Located at the confluence region of Western and Eastern Ghats
Mukurthi National Park
Arunachal Pradesh tiger reserves
• Periyar Tiger Reserve
• Parambikulam Tiger
Reserve
Kerala tiger reserves
States without any TR?
States with highest number of tigers?