FACTS YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT WILDLIFE SANCTUARIES IN INDIA www.pugdundeesafaris.com
TIGER POPULATION IN INDIA
With 70% of the global tiger population, India seems to be the largest tiger range nation, and hence 30% of India’s tiger population (around 1000+ tigers) continues to live outside protected reserves, the above figure has grown even when the number of tiger reserves has continued to increase, from nine in 1973 to 53 in 2022.
A MEGA DIVERSE COUNTRY
India is rich in biodiversity from north to south and east to west. Many of the world’s extinct species can be found in India.
Due to the overwhelming variety and quantity of organisms found across India, it is also known as a mega diversity center. Among over 40,000+ plant species including over 90,000+ animal species living across a diverse geographical landscape which thus includes sea-coast, mountain, desert, forest, grassland, and marshland ecosystems, India is known as just a mega biodiversity hotspot.
GIR — THE ONLY HOME OF ASIATIC LIONS
The Asiatic lion is currently present only in Gir National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary. The last left alive population of Asiatic lions is just a small area of dry deciduous forest and open grassy scrublands in Gujarat’s Saurashtra region.
THE ENDANGERED ONE-HORNED RHINOCEROS
The Indian one-horned rhinoceros seems to be a valuable piece of Wildlife Safari in India. This one-horned rhinoceros is found in both India and Nepal. Rhinoceros were and still are common throughout India, but nowadays they are restricted to the state of Assam and its surrounding areas. The Indian one-horned rhinoceros is perhaps the world’s second-largest rhinoceros. Spottings of one-horned rhinoceros are common in Kaziranga National Park, which has made a significant contribution to their protection.
INDIA IS HOST TO 1300+ SPECIES OF BIRDS, EXCLUDING MIGRATORY BIRDS
As outlining the wild in India, one cannot identify the avifauna, as well as birds. As India is host to 1300 bird species, and indeed the number of our national bird, the peacock, has steadily increased, as reported in the State of India’s Birds Report 2020.
The great Indian bustard, ducks, white-winged wood, masked finfoot, and white-bellied heron are also among India’s rarest and least-known birds.
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