Great news for all the wildlife enthusiasts!!
Ranthambore National Park that has recently made it to the tabloids this week for keeping its doors open during the monsoon season has a new update for all wildlife enthusiasts. Four new furry friends, the playful cubs of a tigress will be a new addition to the park. This will give us a new reason to visit the national park.
In Zone 4 of the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve, four tiger cubs were spotted with their mother Krishna. This joyous news came from a group of tourists who first sighted the tiger and her cubs.
Tigress Krishna comes from the same lineage as that of the popular tigress Machli. This was for the first time that T- 19 was spotted with her 4 cubs in the park’s zone – 4. Krishna has so far had 11 cubs and now with the birth of these four new cubs, she holds the record of the highest birth rate in Ranthambore.
Krishna is also recognized as the mother of Ranthambore’s three most sighted tigers- Arrowhead, Lightning, and Pacman.
Now the total number of adult tigers in Ranthambore Tiger Reserve is around 40-45 and on including semi-adults and cubs it comes to 67. As the population of tigers in the park is increasing at a swift pace, the forest officials are trying to occupy the stretch between Ranthambore National Park and Kailadevi Wildlife Sanctuary. Both areas are a part of the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve, but separated by the Banas River: a safe sanctuary for tigers.
To protect and improve the natural ecosystem for tigers in Ranthambore National Park, Rajasthan Forest Department also aims at developing a 140 –sq-km uninhabited land in Kailadevi this year.
The state government has sanctioned Rs 12 crore to relocate villages from this region. This step is taken for the purpose of creating a continuous corridor for migrating tigers. After relocation, approximately 75 sq km of the forest area will be free from human encroachment.
Thus, animal-lovers can watch tigers in their natural habitat at Ranthambore this year.
