India’s world famous Jim Corbett National Park reopened for public on Sunday (October 05) after a nearly three-month monsoon break.
However, the park will be initially open only for the day visit and authorities said the night camping would be made available from the usual November 15 only. “The park has been re-opened for visitors and on the first day we took a group of 50 school children for a trip around the park,” said D.S. Rawat, Warden at Jim Corbett.
Locals and tourists thronged the park, one of the major tourist attractions in India’s northern Uttarakhand state, and said they were happy at the park’s opening. For the children visiting the park, the trip was a refreshing experience after the grueling school work. Jim National Corbett Park named after the hunter and naturalist Jim Corbett who played a key role in its establishment in 1936-is the oldest national park in India.
Having sub-Himalayan belt geographical and ecological characteristics, the Park contains 488 different species of plants and a diverse variety of fauna. “We have come here from very far and it’s a new experience for us. It’s an educational trip and it’s a kind of refreshing experience for us. We saw many different animals here and it’s a very beautiful place,” said Riya, a tourist.
Situated on the foothills of the Himalayas, the Corbett Park is well-known for its tigers, leopards and elephants.
Famous as a tiger reserve with a count of 92 tigers, the park is also home to leopards, jungle cat, fishing cat, Himalayan Palm civet, tuskers, crocodiles and gharials. Thick jungle, the Ramganga river, and plentiful prey make this reserve an ideal habitat for the critically endangered Bengal tiger of India, to secure survival of which is the main objective of Project Tiger, an Indian wildlife protection initiative.
The place is known as the best place in northern India to observe magnificent Asian elephants at a fairly close range.
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