Mudumalai and Anamalai Tiger Reserve

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Two tiger reserves in Tamil Nadu earn a global status in conservation.
Mudumalai and Anamalai Tiger Reserve get the global elite tag for best tiger conservation practices.

Anamalai Tiger Reserve

It is located near Coimbatore, one of the largest landscapes in the south of Palghat Gap with 4000 sq km of protected area.
India now has 2,967, which is 70 per cent of entire world’s tiger population.
Anamalai is home to 20 tigers, and at Mudumalai the number is 103.
The Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) houses six indigenous tribal populations, an anthropological reserve that tells you the history of conservation involving the tribals.

Mudumalai Tiger Reserve

It is located in the Nilgiris, a bio-diversity hotspot of the Western Ghats have now earned a global elite tag in tiger conservation.
It is the Conservation Assured Tiger Standards (CATS) status, a conservation tool for best practices and standards to manage tigers.
Only 14 reserves made the cut including Parambikulam in Kerala, Bandipur in Karnataka, and Manas, Kaziranga and Orang in Assam, for the accreditation exercise by India’s National Tiger Conservation Authority under CATS.
Well-known reserves like Corbett, Ranthambore and Bandhavgarh did not get the tag.

More on CATS

India’s National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change announced in 2020 the adoption of the Conservation Assured Tiger Standards (CATS) across all the country’s 50 tiger reserves.
CATS is globally accepted conservation tool that sets best practice and standards to manage tigers and encourages assessments to benchmark progress.
CATS is a conservation tool launched in 2013.
It was developed in collaboration with field managers, tiger experts and government agencies engaged in tiger conservation.

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