Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve, National park in Chandrapur district, India.
Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve is a protected area in Chandrapur district in central India. The landscape consists of teak dry forests, gentle hills, lakes, and open grasslands where tigers, leopards, bears, and gaurs live.
The government established Tadoba National Park in 1955 to protect the region's tigers. Forty years later, the area merged with Andhari Wildlife Sanctuary and formed the current reserve.
The name Tadoba comes from Taru, a village chief deified by local tribes after a mythological encounter with a tiger; Andhari refers to the Andhari river. A shrine to Taru stands beneath a large tree on the banks of Tadoba Lake, the only sacred site the sources record.
Visitors can explore the reserve from mid-October to late June with guided jeep safaris. The administration closes the area every Tuesday for maintenance and during the monsoon season from July to September.
The Tadoba region hosts Bengal tigers and one of the highest densities of sloth bears in India. Birdwatchers regularly document over 200 species, including fish eagles and paradise flycatchers hunting along the lake shores.
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