The much-maligned Sariska Tiger Reserve in Alwar district of Rajasthan is going to get back its flagship species soon. Four years after the disappearance of its famous tigers, the reserve is getting ready now for re-introduction of the animal. Much deliberations and some ground level action, including shifting of at least one of the forest villages inside the reserve and improvement in the habitat, have gone into the preparations for the pioneering act, which would have few parallels in the world's conservation history.

Fourteen tiger cubs have been spotted in a leading Indian sanctuary, a rare piece of good news in the country's fight to protect its dwindling population of big cats from poachers and habitat destruction. The cubs have been sighted regularly over the past few weeks in Ranthambore National Park in western Rajasthan, R.N. Mehrotra, the state's chief wildlife warden, told Reuters on Tuesday. "The cubs belong to six or seven different mothers and they are all around three-and-a-half months old," Mehrotra said.

Sariska, which a few years ago was discovered to be the grave of the endangered tiger rather than its sanctuary, is now ready to adopt the big cat again, possibly within a month. The tiger would come from Ranthambhore reserve currently experiencing a boom in the population of the animal, chief wildlife warden of Rajasthan R N Mehrotra told UNI. "Initially we would put just one animal, and its companion would be introduced a few months later, and this was being done to see how the newcomer was finding its new habitat,' he said.

In a good news for tiger lovers alarmed at the sharp decline in the big cat population, six new cubs were sighted at the national wildlife sanctuary in Ranthambore this year, taking their total number to 38. The number of tigresses in the sanctuary is at present around 12 while the fully grown-up male tigers are six in number, forest department officials said, adding together with these cubs their total number in the sanctuary has gone up to 38.

With the tiger fighting a losing battle for survival in the wild, here is the story of one man's resolve to see the royal beast in its natural habitat. Sought-after prize of tourists: A tigress at the Ranthambore Park. Tales of all-eluding tigers are perhaps the most swapped stories among eco-tourists. I remember sharing tables and travel stories with complete unknowns at a non-descript coffee house in Kolkata a year and a half back. Those were the days when the realisation that there existed fine demarcations between travellers also had not dawned on me. On that table that day, I understood that I was a cultural traveller

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AFTER the shocking revelation in 2005 that the tigers (Panthera tigris) had vanished from the Sariska reserve in Rajasthan, Ranthambhore, also in the same State, and one of the most popular tiger habitats in the country, is approaching a similar crisis: The National Park may have only 15 big cats left.

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