Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park (formerly known as Anamali Wildlife Sanctuary) is located south of the Anamalai Hills extending to the Pollachi, Vaalparaai and Udumalpet taluks in Coimbatore district in the southern state of Tamil Nadu in India. The park is named after Indira Gandhi, the late prime minister of India, who paid a visit to the area in 1961. The park, which was set up in 1976, is also called ‘Topslip’, a village in the park and also its main visitor centre. The name ‘Topslip’ has come from the old local practice of rolling down teak timber logs from over the hills. The park is spread over an area of 958 square kilometers and is the largest wildlife sanctuary in Tamil Nadu. The park features various water  [...]

Common info Dudhwa National Park is located on the terai plains at the foothills of the Himalayas in the Indo-Nepal border in Lakhimpur Kheri district, the largest in terms of area in Uttar Pradesh. River Suheli flows in the southern part of the park. The reserve at an altitude of 150-183 metres above the sea level, covers an area of 490 square kilometres (with a buffer zone of 124 square kilometres). Dudhwa was set up in as a wildlife sanctuary in 1958, as a national park in 1977 and adopted the Tiger Project in 1988.  The veteran hunter-turned-conservationist Lieutenant Kunwar Kunwar ‘Billy’ Arjan Singh had played a leading role behind setting up of the Dudhwa as a sanctuary of the swamp deer. Later, he also played an instrumental role in re-introducing hand-reared tiger in the wilds  [...]