
India’s Sariska Tiger Reserve - A Tiger Point in "Sariska Tiger Reserve" in India once used to be the home to big cats. But now antelope graze there with little to fear about a sign of India's national tiger.
The tiger has disappeared from the reserve after its population was wiped out by poachers some two years back, widely putting the blamed on the park authorities.
Learning much from their mistakes the officials are now planning to bring the big cats back to the reserve in what conservationists say will be the world's first ever attempt to reintroduce tigers to a habitat.
"This has never been done anywhere in the world and it is a challenge, but we can do it," Laxmi Narayan Dave, minister for environment in Rajasthan state where Sariska is located, told Reuters.
This semi-arid region of western India's Aravalli Hill Range was once the tiger's ideal habitat, where it could stalk plenty of its prey like chital, sambar and wild pig -- across Sariska's 880 square km of forests, ravines and scrubland.
Note: It should be noted that in early 2005, India was shocked by news of the entire tiger population getting wiped out in Sariska with poachers slaughtering over a dozen of tigers in the recent past.