KMTR The Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve (KMTR) in Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari District of Tamil Nadu is one of the protected areas having diverse flora and fauna.This region has got vegetation types which gradually changes from dry thorn forest to dry deciduous.
Established in 1988, the Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve (KMTR) was the first in the state. Spanning 1,601 sq km, it is the largest of the five reserves in Tamil Nadu. Yet, it's better known for ...
An extinct tree grows in India’s Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve. Well, it’s not exactly extinct. But the small, flowering tree species, known only as Wendlandia angustifolia, has had a long ...
Tamil Nadu’s tigers are on the move, and the govt is helping them by pushing boundaries. The state is pushing tiger conservation beyond reserve boundaries. In 2022, the forest department acquired 38.5 ...
MSN: There’s just one thing missing in Tamil Nadu’s oldest tiger reserve: Tigers
There’s just one thing missing in Tamil Nadu’s oldest tiger reserve: Tigers
Man Killer Tiger Because many of the south Asian subspecies of tiger, particularly the Bengal tiger in Bangladesh and India, live in areas of high and growing population density, farmers and loggers have a long and continuing history of encroaching on tiger habitat, increasing the probability of confrontation. The number of tigers as a whole has dwindled in the twenty-first century, partly due ...
The predominant natural food of the Royal Bengal tiger is the Axis deer and the Bengal bush boar, both of which are found by the hundreds of thousands all over the Sundarbans. A Royal Bengal tiger suffering from some sort of pathology will feed on either livestock from nearby settled territories or even human beings.