Tiger safaris in India
Tigers, due to the obscene trade in body parts, zoos and Chinese 'traditional' medicine, are still declining fast. The ravages of poaching have left an indelible print on this animals' future. In reserves like Sariska there are no tigers left; and even in Ranthambore, despite large numbers of tourists and plenty of funding, their numbers are still dwindling.
No tourists = No tigers
Mud, Man-eaters and Mangroves: Fighting to save the Sundarbans Tigers
There is only one place on earth where wild tigers live in a mangrove swamp. At 10,000km2 the Indian and Bangladeshi Sundarbans is the biggest and most bio-diverse mangrove forest in the world, and home to the tiger.
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However the India National Parks of Kanha, Pench, Panna and Bandhavgarh do offer some hope for this magnificent cat. Other areas in India to enjoy wildlife and wilderness are Bharaptur (birds), Kazaringha - one-horned rhinos, the Sundabans and Corbett National Park.
Travel further north into Nepal and Chitwan has birds, rhino and a few elusive tigers. All parks have leopards but they are notoriously difficult to spot. But if it is leopards in the sub-continent you are after try Yala in Sri Lanka. With no other predators there, they are larger and more concentrated than anywhere else in the world.
Recent Asia news
- Hotels to be built in Kruger National Park – And removed from Nepal’s Chitwan
- Laurie Marker comments on Cheetah reintroduction into India
- India's Manas Wildlife Sanctuary on the road to recovery
- China launches rhino farm with South African rhinos
- Rhino poaching epidemic reaches new levels
- 22% increase in Nepalese rhino population
- Indian rhinos successfully moved to new habitat in Manas NP
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- Tigers on one side, elephants on the other, but farmers of Nepal no longer trapped in ‘natural jail’
- 3 sites in India recommended for the reintroduction of cheetah
- The perfect spot for tigers...
- South Africa and Zimbabwe at epicentre of rhino poaching surge
- Pygmy hogs thriving in the wild 1 year after reintroduction.
- Richard Leakey speaks about Bushmeat - The most significant immediate threat to the future of wildlife in Africa
- 20th Rhino Shot in 2007 in Kaziranga: Poacher killed.
December 2007. There are roughly 359 Asiatic Lions living in Gir forest today. However the conservation success over the last 50 years means that there are now more lions than there is room in Gir.
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