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The Sariska Tiger Reserve is one of the most famous national parks
National parks of India

This is a list of all national parks of India. India's first national park was established in 1935 as Hailey National Park, now known as Jim Corbett National Park....
 in India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
 located in the Alwar district
Alwar District

Alwar District is a district in Rajasthan, a States and territories of India in northern India, near the city of Alwar.The district is bounded on the north by Haryana state, and on the east by Bharatpur District, on the south by Dausa District, and on the west by Jaipur District districts....
 of the state of Rajasthan
Rajasthan

Rajasthan is the largest States and territories of India of the Republic of India in terms of area. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with Pakistan....
. Originally the Capital of Bargujar Kings at Rajor Garh,later a hunting preserve of the erstwhile Alwar state, the area was declared a wildlife reserve in 1955. In 1978, it was given the status of a tiger reserve making it a part of India's Project Tiger
Project Tiger

Project Tiger is a wildlife Conservation movement project initiated in India in 1972 to protect the Bengal Tigers. It was launched on April 1 1973 and has become one of the most successful wildlife conservation ventures....
 scheme. The present area of the park is 866 km².






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The Sariska Tiger Reserve is one of the most famous national parks
National parks of India

This is a list of all national parks of India. India's first national park was established in 1935 as Hailey National Park, now known as Jim Corbett National Park....
 in India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
 located in the Alwar district
Alwar District

Alwar District is a district in Rajasthan, a States and territories of India in northern India, near the city of Alwar.The district is bounded on the north by Haryana state, and on the east by Bharatpur District, on the south by Dausa District, and on the west by Jaipur District districts....
 of the state of Rajasthan
Rajasthan

Rajasthan is the largest States and territories of India of the Republic of India in terms of area. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with Pakistan....
. Originally the Capital of Bargujar Kings at Rajor Garh,later a hunting preserve of the erstwhile Alwar state, the area was declared a wildlife reserve in 1955. In 1978, it was given the status of a tiger reserve making it a part of India's Project Tiger
Project Tiger

Project Tiger is a wildlife Conservation movement project initiated in India in 1972 to protect the Bengal Tigers. It was launched on April 1 1973 and has become one of the most successful wildlife conservation ventures....
 scheme. The present area of the park is 866 km². The park is situated 107 km from Jaipur
Jaipur

Jaipur , also popularly known as the Pink City, is the capital of Rajasthan States and territories of India, India. Historically rendered as Jeypore, Jaipur is the former capital of the princely state of Jaipur State....
 and 200 km from Delhi
Delhi

Delhi , sometimes referred to as Dilli , is the List of most populous cities in India metropolis in India and, with over 11 million residents, the List of metropolitan areas by population....
.

Some of the wildlife found in the Sariska Tiger Reserve include the Bengal tiger
Bengal Tiger

The Bengal tiger, or Royal bengal tiger , is a subspecies of tiger primarily found in India and Bangladesh. They are also found in Nepal, Pakistan, Bhutan, Myanmar and southern Tibet....
, leopard
Leopard

The leopard is a member of the Felidae biological family and the smallest of the four "Panthera" in the genus Panthera; the other three are the tiger, lion and jaguar....
, jungle cat
Jungle Cat

File:FelisChausMunsiari1.jpgThe jungle cat , also called the swamp lynx , is a medium-small cat, but is now considered the largest remaining species of the wild cat genus Felis....
, hyena
Hyena

The Hyaenidae is a mammalian family of order Carnivora. The Hyaenidae family, native to both African and Asian continents consists of four living species, the Striped Hyena and Brown Hyena , the Spotted Hyena and the Aardwolf ....
, jackal
Jackal

A jackal is a member of any of three small to medium-sized species of the family Canidae, found in Africa, Asia and southeastern Europe. Jackals fill a similar ecological niche to the coyote in North America, that of predators of small to medium-sized animals, scavengers, and omnivores....
, chital
Chital

The chital or cheetal , also known as chital deer, spotted deer or axis deer is a deer which commonly inhabits wooded regions of Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, and most of India....
, sambar
Sambar Deer

Sambar , is the common name for several large dark brown and maned Asian deer, particularly for the Indian species , which attains a height of 102 to 160 cm at the shoulder and may weigh as much as 546 kg , though more typically 162-260 kg ....
, caracal
Caracal

The Caracal , also called Persian Lynx or African Lynx, is a fiercely territorial medium-sized Felidae. The Caracal takes its name from its black ears....
, langur, wild boar, four-horned deer
Four-horned Antelope

The Four-horned Antelope also known as the chousingha is an antelope found in open forest in South Asia. Its primary distribution is in India extending South of the Gangetic plains down till the state of Tamilnadu....
 (chowsingha) and several species of birds. The reserve's tiger population nearly disappeared in 2005, however after sustained efforts by Wildlife Institute of India
Wildlife Institute of India

The Wildlife Institute of India is a government institution run by the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education which trains wildlife managers and wildlife researchers....
 (WII) and state government of Rajasthan, the crisis was averted.

The reserve is also the location of several archeological sites such as the Neelkanth Mahadev Temple and Garh Rajor temples from the 9th and 10th centuries built by Bargujar Kings initially they built 360 temples but many were destroyed by invaders, Rajor Garh was there capital, as per Col. James Tod in," Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan". The 17th-century Kankwadi
Kankwadi

Kankwadi is the site of Kankwadi fort, located near the centre of the Sariskapark in Alwar district, is where, in the 17th century, Mughal Empire Emperor Aurangzeb briefly imprisoned his brother Dara Shikoh in the battle for succession of the Mughal throne....
 fort, located near the center of the park, was where the Mughal
Mughal Empire

The Mughal Empire was a Muslim imperial power of the Indian subcontinent which began in 1526, ruled most of the Indian Subcontinent by the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and ended in the mid-19th century....
 Emperor Aurangzeb
Aurangzeb

Aurangzeb Aurangzeb ruled India for 48 years, bringing a larger area under Mughal rule than ever before . He is generally regarded as the last Great Mughal ruler....
 briefly imprisoned his brother Dara Shikoh
Dara Shikoh

Dara Shikoh was the eldest son of the Mughal Empire Emperor Shah Jahan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal. His name ???? ???? in Persian language means "Darius the Magnificent"....
 in the battle for succession of the Mughal throne. The area also has historical buildings associated with the Maharaja
Maharaja

The word Maharaja is Sanskrit for "great king" or "high king" . Due to Sanskrit's major influence on the vocabulary of most languages in India, the term 'maharaja' is common to many modern languages, such as Oriya language, Punjabi language, Bengali language, Hindi, Gujrati, etc....
s of Alwar such as the Sariska Palace, which was used as a royal hunting lodge of Maharaja Jai Singh.

Tiger population

In 2004, there were strong and persistent reports that no tigers were being sighted in Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan. It was not only that tigers were not being seen but also and more alarmingly, there were no indirect evidence of tiger’s presence (such as pugmark
Pugmark

Pugmark is the term used to refer to the footprint of most animals . . "Pug" means foot in Hindi. Every individual animal species has a distinct pugmark and as such this is used for identification....
s, scratch marks on trees etc) being found. The Rajasthan Forest Department took the stand that "the tigers had temporarily migrated outside the reserve and would be back after the rains." The Project Tiger backed this assumption. In January 2005, journalist Jay Mazoomdaar broke the news that there were no tigers left in Sariska. Soon the Rajasthan Forest Department and the Project Tiger Directorate declared an "emergency tiger census" in Sariska and the Central Bureau of Investigation
Central Bureau of Investigation

The Central Bureau of Investigation is India's premier investigating agency, responsible for a wide variety of criminal and national security matters....
, India's premier intelligence agency, conducted a probe. After a two month exercise they finally declared that Sariska indeed did not have any tigers left. Poaching was blamed to be one of the major reasons for the disappearance of tiger.

Relocation efforts

In 2005, efforts to relocate tiger to Sariska started. In 2006, the Government of India
Government of India

The Government of India , officially referred to as the Union Government, and also as Central Government, was established by the Constitution of India, and is the governing authority of a federal union of States and territories of India, collectively called the Republic of India....
 successfully persuaded the state government of Rajasthan to take more concrete relocation efforts. Under the program, five adult tigers were to be relocated to Sariska from Ranthambore National Park
Ranthambore National Park

Ranthambore National Park is one of the largest and most famous national parks in northern India India. It is situated in Sawai Madhopur district of southeastern Rajasthan, about 130 km from Jaipur, which is also the nearest airport....
. The Wildlife Institute of India (WII) along with the state government of Rajasthan started tracking the relocated tigers with the help of ISRO's reconnaissance satellites. The relocation process of numerous villages inside the tiger reserve is still under process by the the Rajasthan government in an effort curb poaching.But this news is so shocking that there are no tigers left there.

As of now only two tigers - one male and one female have been introduced. The efforts paid-off in June 2008 when one of the relocated tigers made its first kill indicating that the tigers have adopted themselves to the Sariska park.But they need to be taken care off very well for ensuring their survival .this needs coperation from all of us. The park has a capacity of 50 tigers.

General information

  • Area: 866 km² total (497 km² core, 369 km² buffer)
  • Altitude: Between 300 m and 722 m MSL
  • Rainfall: Average 650mm (per annum)
  • Forest Types: Tropical Dry Deciduous and Tropical Thorn
Now in februray 2009 one more tigress is relocated in sariska national park from ranthambor. Now the park has one tiger and two tegress and in near future two more tiger are expected to be relocated in the sariska. It is believed to be the very first tiger relocation project throughout the world. In the near history there is no any other examples of tiger relocation.

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