It is located in the Nainital district of Uttarakhand.
The Project Tiger was launched in 1973 in Corbett National Park (first National Park of India), which is part of Corbett Tiger Reserve.
The national park was established in 1936 as Hailey National Park to protect the endangered Bengal tiger.
It is named after Jim Corbett who played a key role in its establishment.
The core area forms the Corbett National Park while the buffer contains reserve forests as well as the Sonanadi Wildlife Sanctuary.
The entire area of the reserve is mountainous and falls in the Shivalik and Outer Himalaya geological provinces.
Ramganga, Sonanadi, Mandal, Palain and Kosi are the major rivers flowing through the Reserve.
Sprawling over 500 square kilometres, CTR is home to 230 tigers and has the world’s highest tiger density — at 14 tigers per hundred square kilometres.
Dense moist deciduous forests are found.
According to the botanical survey of India, Corbett has 600 species of plants - trees, shrubs, ferns, grass, climbers, herbs, and bamboo.
Sal, Khair, and Sissoo are the most visible trees found in Corbett.
Apart from tigers, Corbett also has leopards.
Other mammals such as jungle cats, barking deer, spotted deer, sambar deer, sloth etc. are also found there.
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