Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve bags ‘TX2 award’

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Category : Awards Published on: January 29 2022

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Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (Erode district, Tamil Nadu) has been given the prestigious TX2 award after its tiger numbers doubled to 80 since 2010.
Apart from the STR, the Bardia National Park in Nepal has won this year’s TX2 award for doubling the population of wild tigers.
Sathyamangalam wildlife sanctuary was declared a tiger reserve in 2013 and the reserve that spread across 1,411.60 sq km is an important link between the Nilgiris and Eastern Ghats landscape.
The Nilgiri biosphere landscape that this reserve is part of is currently the home to the largest tiger population in the world.

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Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve bags ‘TX2 award’