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50 years of Bandipur Tiger Reserve
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- Bandipur in Karnataka completed 50 years as a Project Tiger Reserve.
- On April 1, 1973, the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi launched the flagship conservation programme to arrest the big cat’s dwindling population.
- There were 12 tigers in Bandipur when Project Tiger was launched.
- Today, the number of tigers utilizing the park is 173.
- Bandipur was among the first nine reserves to be brought under the flagship programme.
- The Bandipur Tiger Reserve is an important component of the country’s first biosphere reserve, Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.
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