Geographical Details:

- Longitude – From 80-47-00 E To 81-12-00 E

- Latitude – From 23-30-00 N To 23-57-00 N

- Topography Code – B

- Altitudinal Range – 440-811

- Average Rainfall – 1172 mm

- Temperature – Min 8, Max 42 (deg.Cel)

Bandhavgarh Tiger ReserveTiger population:

- 1979 – 51

- 1984 – N.A.

- 1989 – 38

- 1993 – 41

- 1995 – 46

- 2001- 49

In the wild zone !!

Fauna: Bandhavgarh is blessed with a lot of avenues of residents – both when it comes to animals and birds. In the category of animals, you’ll be able to sight , leopards, gaur , chital (spotted deer), Sambar deer , Dholes, nilgais , wild boars, sloth bears, rhesus macaques, black faced langurs, jungle cats, hyenas, porcupines, jackals, foxes, wild dogs, chausinghas and ratels, among others. It is the density of it’s big cat population that has made Bandhavgarh really famous across the globe. Many of it’s tigers have played pivot roles of numerous films made on wildlife. In Bandhavgarh, one gets to see a few of the larger specimens of wild boar, Sambhar Deer and Barking Deer found anywhere in the country.

Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve Flora: The Bandhavgarh national park is a jungle consisting mainly of sal trees. It is simply in the slightly higher reaches that it changes to a more mixed vegetation of sali, saj, saja, dhobin etc. In the northern region of the park, there are vast stretches of grasslands and bamboo forests. A lot of this is what appears to be young bamboo, which may be seen from it’s green and slim appearance. This northern region also consists of a series of rocky ridges with deep crevices cut by perennial streams. In the south, the extensions, which were included into the park in 1986, consist of low hills covered with forest but interspersed with grasslands that were formerly agricultural land. The central portion of the park, which consists of the original 106 square kilometers and the fort, is still the main sighting area. This area consists of 32 hills and some marshy stretches divided by large grasslands and some water bodies. The forest cover surrounding these is very dense completely up the hilly slopes, like those prior to the “Shesh Saya”.

Visiting Season:

Visitors can visit the park during the time period of November to June; still the best period to come is January-April. Park is open from October to June.

Bandhavgarh Tiger ReserveHow to Reach Bandhavgarh National Park:

By Air: The most convenient route to Bandhavgarh National Park is by air to Khajuraho from where it is a five-hour drive (237Km). Though long, the driver is interesting; the road crosses the Ken river, some stretches of which have been declared a crocodile sanctuary famous for the ghariyal, a rare fish eating crocodile; and goes past Panna town, famous for its diamond mines, to Satna, the midway-point, from where it branches off on a subsidiary road across ridges of Vindhyachal to Bandhavgarh.

By Rail: The nearest railway station near Bandhavgarh are Jabalpur (164 Km), Katni (102 Km) and Satna (120 Km) on the central railway and Umaria (35 Km) on the South Eastern Railway.

By Road: The Park Is available from Jabalpur, Satna, Katni, Umeria, Bilaspur and Khajuraho.

Accommodation:

The Madhya Pradesh Tourist department has a forest lodge in Bandhavgarh; the PWD and the Forest Department also have guest houses within the park, where the accommodation, though not the height of luxury, is adequate. Rooms range from some interesting cabins on stilts to individual cottages.

Besides this, there are hotels and forest lodges at Tala (at the entrance to Bandhavgarh). More information on Bandhavgarh may be obtained from the Director, Bandhavgarh National Park, P.O. Umaria, District Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh. Reservations for the MP tourism lodge can be created at the MP State Tourism Development Corporation in Bhopal.

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Bhopal, May 19 (PTI) A 30-month-old tigress today died in Madhya Pradesh’s Bandhavgarh tiger reserve due to internal injuries.

“The tigress was around 30 months old and possibly died after sustaining some internal injuries in a fight with another tigress over territorial rights,” Reserve Field Director C K Patil told PTI over phone.

The tigress was found dead at Tala range of the reserve in Umaria district.

Patil said some tourists spotted a limping tigress this morning.

He, however, ruled out the possibility of the tigress being hit by some tourists’ jeep in the reserve.

Before the feline died it entered a water body in Tala range, Patil said, adding there was no external injury mark on the tigress’ body.

Patil said the post-mortem of tigress will be done as per the guidelines of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) tomorrow.

http://www.ptinews.com/news/659711_Tigress-dies-in-Bandhavgarh-Tiger-Reserve

NAGPUR: Tiger conservation took a hit on Tuesday when one death was reported inside the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, 475 kms from Nagpur.

This is the 18th tiger death in India since January and comes at a time when census readings are being studied to check if the tally of 1411 from the count four years ago has gone up or down. The new figure will be announced by the Wildlife Institute of India in October this year.

The incident took place at 10am in Zurzura in Tala Range of the reserve. There are conflicting claims not only about the reasons of death but also of the tiger’s sex.

Some tourists from Nagpur told TOI that the tiger had died due to suffocation after its neck got entangled in a wire snare which may have been put by villagers to trap herbivores. Others claimed the tiger was hit by a tourist vehicle and died due to injuries.

Forest officials, however, rule out both the possibilities and are giving a completely different view.

CK Patil, field director & conservator of forests at Bandhavgarh, feels that the tiger – a male according to him — could have died in a territorial fight. He denied that it was injured and attacked tourists’ vehicles.
Patil was also emphatic that the tiger did not have had wire snares on its neck.

Contradicting his boss’ claims, JN Shukla, the Tala range forest officer (RFO), told TOI the dead animal was a three-year-old female and there were no external injury marks on its body. This clearly indicates that the tiger did not die in a territorial fight as is being claimed by Patil.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Did-Bandhavgarh-tiger-choke-to-death/articleshow/5951666.cms