Photo: Pilibhit tiger reserves, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
The protected forest holds an amazing ecosystem of over 400 square miles and provides a good prey base for the elegant cats. Other National Parks like Corbett and Dudhwa in India and Royal Shukla Phatan in Nepal are close by..
Pilibhit Tiger Reserve is a tiger reserve located in Pilibhit district of Uttar Pradesh, which was notified as a tiger reserve in 2014. It forms part of the Terai Arc Landscape in the upper Gangetic Plain along the India-Nepal border. The habitat is characterised by sal forests, tall grasslands and swamp maintained by periodic flooding from rivers. The Sharda Sagar Dam extending up to a length of 22 km (14 mi) is on the boundary of the reserve.
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