Dudhwa Tiger Reserve

Coordinates: 28°31′N 80°41′E / 28.517°N 80.683°E / 28.517; 80.683
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Dudhwa Tiger Reserve
Lakhimpur Kheri and Bahraich districts, Uttar Pradesh, India
Coordinates28°31′N 80°41′E / 28.517°N 80.683°E / 28.517; 80.683
Area1284.3 km²
Established1987

The Dudhwa Tiger Reserve is a protected area in

Lakhimpur Kheri and Bahraich districts and comprises the Dudhwa National Park, Kishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary and Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary. It covers an area of 1,284.3 km2 (495.9 sq mi). Three large forested areas are extant within the reserve, although most of the surrounding landscape is agricultural. It shares the north-eastern boundary with Nepal, which is defined to a large extent by the Mohana River. It ranges in altitude from 110 to 185 m (361 to 607 ft), and several streams flow through the reserve from the northwest across the alluvial plain that encompasses the reserve.[1]

History

The Dudhwa National Park and the Kishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary were designated as Dudhwa Tiger Reserve in 1987 as part of Project Tiger. The Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary was added in the year 2000.[1] It is one of India's 53 Tiger Reserves.[2]

Fauna

The protected area is home for

sambar, wild boar and hispid hare.[3]

Tigers

In 2006, the tiger population of the Dudhwa-Kheri-Pilibhit conservation complex was estimated as comprising 80–110 tigers. Until 2010, the population had increased to an estimated 106–118 tigers and was considered stable.[3]

The reintroduced tiger

Tiger in Dudhwa National Park

In July 1976,

reintroduced her to the wild in the Dudhwa National Park with the permission of India's then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.[4]

In the 1990s, some tigers from the protected area were observed to have the typical appearance of

mitochondrial haplotype indicating that their mother was a Bengal tiger.[5]
Skin, hair and blood samples from 71 tigers collected in various Indian zoos, in the
microsatellite analysis that revealed that two tigers had alleles in two loci contributed by Bengal and Siberian tiger subspecies.[6] However, samples of two hybrid specimens constituted too small a sample base to conclusively assume that Tara was the source of the Siberian tiger genes.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Mathur, P. K. and N. Midha (2008). Mapping of National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries, Dudhwa Tiger Reserve Archived 12 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine. WII – NNRMS - MoEF Project, Final Technical Report. Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun.
  2. ^ Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change. "NTCA/Project Tiger (As of 2014)". Archived from the original on 25 May 2015. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  3. ^ a b Jhala, Y. V., Qureshi, Q., Sinha, P. R. (eds.) (2011). Status of tigers, co-predators and prey in India, 2010. Archived 20 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine National Tiger Conservation Authority, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. TR 2011/003 pp-302
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  5. ^ Shankaranarayanan, P.; Singh, L. (1998). "Mitochondrial DNA sequence divergence among big cats and their hybrids". Current Science. 75 (9): 919–923.
  6. S2CID 41046139. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 July 2013.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
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  7. ^ Menon, S. (1997). Tainted Royalty Archived 30 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine. India Today.

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