'Reduce Tourist Vehicles To Corbett'

More than two lakh tourists visited the National Park in the past year with a daily average of 400 through four tourist gates. The high inflow of tourists, according to Ramesh, has caused higher air and noise pollution inside the park, a probable cause for stress to tigers. The noise created by vehicular movement is said to be a reason for poor breeding of tigers.

“It had happened in Sariska," said a senior scientist with Dehradun-based Wildlife Institute of India, giving high tourist inflow as a possible reason for poor breeding of tigers in Sariska before they vanished in 2004. Read the full report here.

Source: Chetan Chauhan, Hindustan Times, New Delhi