RAKHEE ROY TALUKDAR The tiger after it reached Sariska. Picture by Gopal Sunger Jaipur, June 28: The tiger has landed in Sariska at last. In an air force helicopter. After three long and barren years, Sariska regained its stripes as a tiger reserve today, carrying out what experts said was the world's first "scientifically planned' relocation of the big cat. The 881sqkm national park in Alwar had made headlines in 2004-05 when unchecked poaching turned its cat count into zero.

The National Tiger Conservation Authority has been under pressure to produce results, especially after it acknowledged some months ago that the population of the big cat has declined sharply. Reintroducing tigers into Rajasthan's Sariska reserve, where the animal went locally extinct about four years ago, is a predictable first-order priority for the authority. A success here is bound to encourage intensified conservation efforts and also help forest managers live down the ignominious wipe-out.

Fitted With GPS Collar As Safety Measure; Two More Big Cats To Be Flown In Sariska (Alwar): Sariska almost missed its date with history. Around 3 in the morning, it began to rain. By daybreak, it was bucketing down. You would have had to be a die-hard optimist to believe that a tiger would eventually be flown down during the day.

Sunny Sebastian New arrival: In a bid to revive the tiger population at the Sariska reserve, Rajasthan, a three-year-old male cub was airlifted on Saturday from the State's Ranthambore national park. The move reintroduces the big cat in the reserve, which lost all its tigers to poaching in 2004-05. SARISKA (RAJASTHAN): The tiger has landed and it is a male!

Sunny Sebastian Plan to re-introduce wild tigers in the sanctury JAIPUR: The country is on the threshold of making history by re-introducing wild tigers in one of its sanctuaries. If everything goes according to plan and the weather gods are merciful, a tiger

When a pair of tiger cubs are relocated to the Sariska Tiger Reserve in the coming days, wildlife experts won't leave them at the mercy of marauding poachers who wiped out big cats from the sanctuary in Rajasthan by 1993. The cubs, to be shifted from the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve, will be fitted with radio collars and constantly monitored by a satellite. The collars, each costing Rs 8 lakh, have been procured from a Canada-based firm, Lotek, sources said.

YOJNA GUSAI Sariska is soon going to get back its glory, which in monetary terms has cost the country's exchequer more than Rs 1.5 crore. After losing all the tigers to poachers in 2004, this tiger reserve in Rajasthan will have tigers from the Ranthambore tiger reserve by the end of June. This is for the first time in the world that tiger species is being relocated, therefore tiger conservationists from all over the globe are praying for its success.

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.