tiger reserves of india india mapping series

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


• 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


• Dampa Tiger Reserve

Mizoram tiger reserves


• Namdappha Tiger Reserve

• Pakke or Pakhui Tiger

Reserve

• Kamlang Tiger Reserve


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


• 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


• Periyar Tiger Reserve

• Parambikulam Tiger

Reserve

Kerala tiger reserves

States without any TR?

States with highest number of tigers?

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