Palamu Tiger Reserve : In News
Villagers from 25 villages in the Garu region of Palamu Tiger Reserve (PTR), Latehar district, voluntarily surrendered 31 country-made guns to support wildlife protection.
- Palamu Tiger Reserve is located in Jharkhand.
- The reserve forms a part of the Betla National Park.
- It is one of the first tiger reserves created in the country at the inception of ‘Project Tiger’.
- It is the first reserve in the world in which a tiger census was carried out as a pugmark count, as early as 1932 under the supervision of J.W. Nicholson.
- The terrain is undulating with valleys, hills, and plains. The geological formation consists of gneiss and includes granite and limestone.
- It is drained by three rivers, namely North Koel, Auranga, and Burha, flowing through the valleys.
- The vegetation comprises moist deciduous and dry deciduous forests.
- It mainly consists of Sal and bamboo as the major components.
- Some keystone and principal species found in the reserve include Tiger, Asiatic Elephant, Leopard, Grey wolf, Wild dog, Gaur, Sloth bear and four horned antelope.
