Travel To Uttarakhand

Wildlife

Wildlife is always exciting to watch. They were the earlier masters of the wild outside until humans started their domination over the world, an era that still exists. In spite of constant poaching and endangering, they are still pleasant to see our wild friends roam about in their natural habitats.

The animals are now being conserved environments thanks to the self centered and cruel action of some members of our proud clan.

Now, the people all over the globe share the same view and that is to save whatever is left and increase it to what it was. There is a vast improvement as more and more people are constantly being involved in conservation activities.

Treasure

India is also a part of the international view of saving the precious treasure chest of bio diversity. There are many wildlife sanctuaries in India. Uttarakhand (Uttaranchal) is home to the first wildlife sanctuary in India namely the Corbett National Park.

This park has been christened after Jim Corbett, who helped a lot in demarcating the boundaries of the park. It was found in 1936 by Sir Malcolm Hailey, the then governor general and was called as Hailey National Park until the independence of India. The park has always been home to lots of lush vegetation and lots of animals. The flora and fauna is always the highlight of the state.

Wildlife Conservation

With all the beauty of nature and its significance, the wildlife is also well protected in their natural habitats. The Corbett National Park has reptiles, fish eating gharial, mugger, sporting fish such as mahseer and malee that thrive in the river and lake. Tigers are the biggest attraction and also include elephant, leopard, hog, bear, deer, sambar, fox and muntac. This park has over 300 species of birds and the common birds are snipe, herons, ducks, egrets, spotted eagle, darter, harrier, cormorants, wood pecker and thrushes. The Nanda Devi National Park includes snow leopard, Himalayan tahr, Himalayan black bear, chir pheasants and nonal. The Kedarnath Sanctuary has leopard, snow leopard, serow, musk deer and snow cock.

Rajaji National Park is on the Dehradun Valley. The sanctuary has elephant, bear chital, tiger, sambar, panther, kakar, python, wild boar and monitor lizard. The Chilla sanctuary is on the bank of the Ganga and entertains elephants, bear, tigers and gorals. The beautiful nature, the abundance of flora and fauna and the clean environment has encourages wildlife and is of great attraction to tourists.