National
Tiger Reserve Sariska Rajasthan
Sariska
Tiger Reserve is a national park and tiger reserve located in Alwar district of
the state of Rajasthan, India. It stretches over an area of 866 km2 comprising scrub-thorn arid forests, dry
deciduous forests, grasslands, and rocky hills. This area was a hunting
preserve of the Alwar state and was declared a wildlife reserve in 1955. It was
given the status of a tiger reserve making it a part of India's Project Tiger
in 1978. The wildlife sanctuary was declared a national park in 1990, with a
total area of about 273.8 km2 It is the first reserve in the world to have
successfully relocated tigers.
Tiger
Population in Sariska
In
2003, 16 tigers lived in the reserve. In 2004, it was reported that no Bengal
tigers were sighted in the reserve, and that no indirect evidence of tiger
presence was found such as pug marks, scratch marks on trees, scats. The
Rajasthan Forest Department explained that "the tigers had temporarily
migrated outside the reserve and would be back after monsoon season".
Project Tiger, now National Tiger Conservation Authority backed
this assumption. In January 2005, it was reported that there were no tigers
left in Sariska. The Rajasthan Forest Department and the Project Tiger Director
declared an "emergency tiger census" in Sariska. The Central Bureau
of Investigation, India's intelligence agency, conducted a probe. After a
two-month investigation, the agency finally declared that no tigers were left
in the reserve. Poaching was blamed for the disappearance of tigers. In order
to repopulate Sariska with tigers, three tigers were relocated to the reserve,
and authorities planned to relocate two more tigers by the end of the following
year. Recently two tiger cubs and their
mother were spotted in the reserve bringing the total number of tigers to seven
with five adults. In July 2014, two more cubs were spotted, so that there were
11 tigers in total. Two more cubs were sighted in August 2014, so that the
population increased to 13 individuals.
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