CORBETT
TIGER RESERVE - ENVIRONMENT
News: Two critically endangered, four
vulnerable, and two endangered species found during bird survey at Corbett
Tiger Reserve in Nainital
What's
in the news?
● About
275 bird species, including two critically endangered, four vulnerable ones and
two endangered species, were counted during the bird survey at Corbett Tiger
Reserve in Nainital.
Corbett
Tiger Reserve:
● Established in
1936 as Hailey National Park after
Sir Malcolm Hailey, the governor of the United Province.
● It
was renamed Ramganga National Park,
named after the river that flows through it, shortly after Independence and was
rechristened yet again as Corbett National Park in 1956.
Location
- Uttarakhand
Uniqueness:
● Corbett
has the glory of being India's oldest and most prestigious National Park.
● It
is a part of the larger Corbett Tiger Reserve, a Project Tiger Reserve.
● It
is honoured as the place where Project
Tiger was first launched in 1973.
Features:
● The
sanctuary is situated halfway between the Terai
and the Siwalik Himalayas.
● Asiatic
elephants and Royal Bengal tigers are the park’s most renowned residents.
● It
is one of the richest bird areas in India with over 586 species of resident and
migratory birds.
● The
region has been designated as a “Important
Bird Area” by Birdlife International.
● Dhikala, Bijrani, Jhirna, Sonanadi,
Durgadevi, and Dhela are the park’s six ecological zones.
● In
addition to tigers, Corbett is home to leopards. There are also other animals
there, including otters, langurs, rhesus macaques, barking deer, spotted deer,
sambar deer, sloths, chitals, and Himalayan black bears.