Tigers of Central India

[Suhail]

In my opinion tiger originated most probably from  northwestern side of saranda landscape, means sanjay dubri or Bandhavgarh itself and not from saranda or its Eastern side.tiger comes from palmau reserve cannot be ruled out.as per satellite maps saranda and surrounding forests seems nothing more than a honey comb like matrix of forests and human settlements.although 15000 sqkm( as you mentioned) landscape may exists east of Sanjay-Dubri, palmau& Achanakmar tiger reserves,those forests may not support a viable tiger population as it lost the past glory, except several isolated reserves with little or no corridors to connect.
While we have vast forests in the south such as indravati national park and surrounding forests,
Virtually no wildlife exists due to maoist threat and unrest.sadly the new report suggests there is no tiger in this reserve.do you have any information about the extant of connectivity between kanha, tadoba and intravati national park? Reply