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Ranthambore National Park Overview

Ranthambore National Park, established in 1955 and declared a national park in 1980, is located in eastern Rajasthan, India, and is known for its population of Royal Bengal Tigers. The park encompasses approximately 1700.22 sq km and is home to diverse wildlife, including 40 species of mammals, 35 species of reptiles, and 320 species of birds. It also includes adjacent sanctuaries, Sawai Man Singh and Keladevi, enhancing its ecological significance.

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Ranthambore National Park Overview

Ranthambore National Park, established in 1955 and declared a national park in 1980, is located in eastern Rajasthan, India, and is known for its population of Royal Bengal Tigers. The park encompasses approximately 1700.22 sq km and is home to diverse wildlife, including 40 species of mammals, 35 species of reptiles, and 320 species of birds. It also includes adjacent sanctuaries, Sawai Man Singh and Keladevi, enhancing its ecological significance.

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About Ranthambore Tiger Reserve


Ranthambore National Park was established initially as Sawai Madhopur Game Sanctuary in 1955 by the Government of India.
In 1973, it was declared as one of the Project Tiger reserves in India. It was on 1st November, 1980 that Ranthambore was
declared a national park, while the forests located beside it were named Sawai Man Singh Sanctuary & Keladevi Sanctuary.

Ranthambore National Park is situated 14 km from Sawai Madhopur district of eastern Rajasthan in India. The Park derives its
name from the Ranth-ambhor Fort situated within its precincts. The Park is surrounded by the Vindhyas and Aravalis hill
range. By the turn of the century, the Ranthambore forests had become the private hunting reserves of the Maharaja of Jaipur
and Sanctuary establishes in the year 1955 by the Indian Government & was declared as Project Tiger reserves in the year
[Link] acknowledged National Park in the year 1980 & later in the year 1991 the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve was enlarged to
include Sawai Man Singh & Keladevi sanctuaries, total area was 1334 km. and bound by the Chambal River in the south and
Banas in the north. In 2006, Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve (RTR) was approximately 1394 and later on forest department has
enlarged including core and buffer area thus it is approx 1700.22 sq km. Across the river Banas, lies the Keladevi sanctuary,
while the Sawai Man Singh sanctuary lies to the south of the Park.

Ranthambore boasts being home to a large number of mammals, reptile, and bird species. The national park in Rajasthan is
primarily known as the home to Royal Bengal Tigers. Other than this, the national park also has a rich population of leopards,
sloth bears, several deer species like chital (spotted deer), marsh crocodile, palm civet, jackal, desert fox, serpent eagle,
waterfowl that along with others make 40 species of mammals, 35 species of reptiles and 320 species of birds.

The popular wild animals in Ranthambore includes Tigers, Leopards, Striped Hyenas, Sambar deer, Chital, Nilgai, Common or
Hanuman langurs, Macaques, Jackals, Jungle cats, Caracals, Sloth bears, Black bucks, Rufoustailed Hare, Indian Wild Boar,
Chinkara, Common Palm Civets or Toddy cat, Coomon Yellow Bats, Desert Cats, Fivestriped Palm Squirels, Indian False
Vampires, Indian Flying Foxes, Indian Foxes, Indian Gerbilles, Indian Mole Rats, Indian Porcupines, Longeared Hedgehogs,
Ratels, Small Indian Mongoose, Small Indian Civets and Common mongoose.

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