Jim Corbett - Tiger Man

in #nature5 years ago

Jim Corbett is considered the father of modern conservation in India. His work there was the foundation for efforts to preserve and protect tigers and their habitat in the subcontinent. Though he was an Englishman, and loyal to the Crown, he was born and raised in India only visiting England once in his life for a mere handful of days. He became famous in his day as a tracker and big-game hunter, well known for hunting down and killing a string of feared man-eaters.

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Yet his lasting contributions would be the defense of the animals, and his prescient warnings of the coming disappearance of these predators. Though he had no pretensions to fame, his books would go on to become best sellers across the globe, drawing comparisons to Hemingway and Kipling. Eventually taking up the mantle of spokesman for the rights of tigers and wildlife conservation in general, his efforts led to the creation of India's first national wildlife reserve in the Kumaon Hills of northern India, just west of the Nepali border.

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Starting out as 99 square miles of land in 1936, this preserve was originally called Hailey National Park, but was renamed after Corbett in 1957, two years after his death. It is now expanded to 200 square miles of hills, rivers, marshes and grasslands between 1,300 and 4,000 feet of elevation, three quarters of which are covered by dense forest. This park, which is home to hundreds of bird and tree species as well as a number of mammals and reptiles, including buffalo, elephants, leopards, sloths, bears, pythons and crocodiles. But the main draw for the park's 70,000+ annual visitors are its population of over 200 Bengal tigers.

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This is such a beautiful wild life place to visit in India.

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Conserving the animals is a much better legacy to leave behind then killing them. Im glad they made a national reserve. Awesome!

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The story of Jim Corbett is very interesting, thank you for sharing ... beautiful place. 😍safari

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