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      • The Dudhwa National Park and the Kishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary were designated as Dudhwa Tiger Reserve in 1987 as part of Project Tiger.
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  2. 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.

  3. It was notified as a national park in January 1977 thanks to the efforts of Billy Arjan Singh. [ 3 ] [ failed verification ] In 1987, Dudhwa National Park together with Kishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary and Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary was declared a tiger reserve named Dudhwa Tiger Reserve.

  4. The three Protected Areas, being the last viable home of the Royal Bengal Tiger in the state, have been jointly constituted into Dudhwa Tiger Reserve under Project Tiger. Kishanpur (204 sq km), the oldest of the three PAs, was declared a Wildlife Sanctuary in 1972, followed by KATARNIAGHAT (440 sq km) in 1975 and finally Dudhwa National Park ...

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    Dudhwa Tiger Reserve consists of Dudhwa National Park, Kishanpur and Katerniaghat Wildlife Sanctuaries, alongwith forests of North Kheri, South Kheri and Shahjahanpur Forest Divisions. Core : Buffer :

    The flora is predominantly Sal forest alongwith its associate tree species like Terminalia alata (Asna), Lagerstroemia parviflora (Asidha), Adina cordifolia (Haldu), Mitragyna parviflora (Faldu), Gmelina arborea (Gahmhar), Holoptelea intgrifolia (Kanju), Acacia catechu (Khair), Pterocarpus marsupium (Vija sal), Kydia calyina (Poola), Lannea coroman...

    The major mammals include: Panthera pardus (Guldar), Panthera tigris (Tiger), Felis viverrina (Fishing cat), Macaca mulatta (Monkey), Presbytis entellus (Langur), Herpestes edwardsi (Mongoose), Herpestes auropunetatus (Small Indian Mongoose), Viverricula indica (small Indian civet), Canis aureus (Jackal), Mellivora capensis (Honey Badger), Lutra pe...

    The Northern and North-Western boundaries of the Dudhwa National Park lie along the Indo-Nepal international border, while its Eastern and Southern borders are surrounded by agriculture land. A railway line and PWD road pass through the National Park. The Katerniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary makes border with Nepal on its North Eastern side, and is bo...

    The buffer area is subjected to ongoing forestry practices and has considerable biotic pressure. The co-occurrence agenda to benefit people and wildlife is essential here.

    The linkages between Dudhwa, Katerniaghat and Kishanpur are important owing to movement of wild animals between the protected areas. The Dudhwa-Katerniaghat linkage along the Mohana river is deforested and requires restoration. The connectivity of Dudhwa with Laljhari is crucial for movement of elephants and other wild animals from Nepal. The Ki...

    Day to day monitoring of tiger, protection, coordination with Nepal, addressing the resource dependency of peripheral villages and human-wildlife conflicts are important.

    Stepped up protection, tiger monitoring, in-situ conservation of rhinos and mitigation strategy during floods.

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  5. The Dudhwa Tiger Reserve is the only place in the country to hold a potentially viable population of the nominate sub-species of the northern swamp deer (Cervus duvauceli duvauceli). Of the seven species of deer found in the country, five occurs in the Reserve.

  6. Jun 24, 2013 · Dudhwa National Park was declared a tiger reserve in 1979. Other two nearby national parks were also declared as tiger reserves under Project Tiger in 1987. Thus, the three national parks, Dudhwa National Park, Krishnapur National Park, and Katarniaghat National Park, were combined to form the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve in 1987.

  7. In July 1976, Billy Arjan Singh acquired a tiger cub named Tara from Twycross Zoo in the United Kingdom, hand reared her and later reintroduced her to the wild in the Dudhwa National Park with the permission of India’s then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.