Chikmagalur: Kudremukh To Have A Tiger Reserve - Jairam Ramesh

This was disclosed here on Sunday by none other than the Chikmagalur-born union minister for the enviroment Jairam Ramesh. Being the district of his birth, he definitely may have felt proud to take this step.  He added that preparations are already on to formally declare Kudremukh as a tiger reserve. This will take the present number of reserves in the state to six, from the present four.

He had a special word of praise for the state's scientists and officials in tiger conservation. He said that it had been revealed in the tiger census the presence of 350 tigers in the state. Even in 2006, Karnataka had stood first in tiger population. Read the full report here.

Source: Mangalorean.com, chikmagalur.