As a result, locals are now creating and managing tiger habitat and consider themselves guardians of their tigers.
This discovery dramatically increases the known range of viable tiger habitat.
The state has 3 other significant tiger habitats:
The area is a tiger habitat.
The potential tiger habitats being covered are:
Where watercourses penetrated deep into desert areas, suitable wild pig and tiger habitat was often linear, only a few kilometers wide at most.
Increased levels of foreign and domestic investment in India's transport, energy and manufacturing sectors are generating enormous pressures on tiger habitat.
They co-exist with tigers, but being socially subordinate are not common in prime tiger habitat.
Only 11% of original Indian tiger habitat remains, and it is becoming significantly fragmented and often degraded.
They are sandwiched between prime tiger habitat, on the one side, and cultivated village land on the other.