Trekking around Tadoba
by Jessica Luis Tadoba Tiger Reserve is the oldest National Park in Maharashtra. It was declared a tiger reserve way back in 1935. Apart from being home to around a whopping 60 tigers, you will also find diverse wildlife like leopards, sloth bears, gaur, wild dogs, Indian Muggers, civets and many species of deer. Like all national parks, Tadoba is divided into a core and a buffer where you find most villages. But these boundaries don't mean that humans and animals are separated in compartments, humans outside the forest and animals inside. Both end up having to share the same space. And when you stay so close to the forest, you're definitely going to have VERY close encounters with the animals that live in it. The light green area shows the core region of Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve Map from: www.indiawildliferesorts.com Earlier in September, a few of us volunteered for a conflict survey at Tadoba, where we had to go to around 200 villages near the ...