With wide range of flora and fauna
India is among the top wildlife tourism destinations of the world. Since
the "Project Tiger" and conservation policy increased number of reserve
forest, bird sanctuaries and National parks are favoring the eco
friendly tourism. Climatic conditions of the country are also favorable
for many species of migrating birds, which proves additional tourist
attraction. All the Wildlife destination are arranged in alphabetical
order with state name. Information about how to reach is included in
static's column in the form of nearest Airport, Railway and Road.
National Park / Reserves / Bird
Sanctuaries
Static's / How to reach
Prime Attractions
Hemis
National Park, Leh, Jammu Kashmir
*Area: 600
sq. km.
*Visiting Season : May to October
*Airport : Srinagar *Railway: Jammu Tavi *Road:
regular Bus service from Lah to park
*Protected Cold desert area.
*Animals:
snow Leopard, Tibetan wild or Kiang, Ibex, serow and Tibetan
antelope.
* Dry forests of Juniper, Birch, Fir & Alpine
grasslands .
* Leh will be the base stay.
Idukki
Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala
*Area: 77
sq. km.
* Visiting season November to March
* Airport : Cochin *Rail Station: Kottayam *Road:
a well defined state road web is there to take the visitor into
sanctuary.
*Most endangered species such as Wild Buffalos and
Hill Mynas.
*Trees: Sal, Teak and Bamboo.
Jim
Corbett National Park / Tiger Reserve Uttaranchal
*One among
the first of oldest wildlife reserve of India established in 1936 on
land over 52,000 hectors as Haily National Park & renamed as Corbett
National Park in 1957.
*This is the place where on 1st April 1973
"Project Tiger" was Launched in India.
* Recently in news [for shooting of Hindi movie "Kaal"]
park remains open through out the year.
*Airport: Pantnagar *Rail Station: Ramnagar * Site
have good road links with Delhi, Lucknow & other major cities.
* Prime
attractions of the park are Tiger, elephant and the big wild cat-
Leopard.
* Beside chital, Para, barking deer & Kakka- the
four spices of deer, visitor can have look at Himalayan Black
beer,the sloth Bear, Jackal and other wild mammals from the back of
Elephant.
* A large number of migratory birds can be
observed here during the winter, in all the number of bird spices of
Corbett park goes in the vicinity of 600.
*Apart from the wildlife attractions tourist can
go for Dikhala for a panoramic view of valley, Museum for life of
Jim Corbett & Girja Devi temple, a rock temple just 14 km away.
