Palamu Tiger Reserve:
For the first time in Jharkhand, the tiger which had vacated its haunt in the Palamu Tiger Reserve (PTR) and wandered off into the Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary in Jharkhand and West Bengal’s Purulia a few months back will be brought back to its native territory
- It is located in the Chhota Nagpur plateau region of Jharkhand.
- The reserve forms a part of the Betla National Park.
- It is one of the first 9 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
- Three rivers namely North Koyal, Auranga and Burha flow through the valleys of the PTR.
- The area is drought-prone with Burha being the only perennial river.
- The Reserve is very rich in minerals like Bauxite and Coal.
- It is primarily dominated by Northern Tropical Dry Deciduous, Sal Forest and its associates.
- Smaller patches of Northern tropical Moist Deciduous forests exist too in the Reserve.
