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The Karnataka Forest Department confirmed the presence of a male tiger in the Kishkindha Hills of Koppal district on 24 August 2026.
A camera trap at Temba village in Gangavathi taluk recorded the animal on 23 August 2026; the department had deployed 50 camera traps across Sanapura, Basapura and Temba after months of resident reports.
Officials identified dry deciduous forest and thorny scrub in the Sanapura-Basapura hill range as the tiger's habitat.
A technical committee was formed to examine the animal's origin and possible movement from the Srisailam wildlife corridor in Andhra Pradesh.
A safety advisory was issued for Hampi and nearby villages, asking residents not to enter forest areas alone or sleep outdoors.
Statutory body that administers Project Tiger, approves tiger reserve constitution and conducts the All India Tiger Estimation
India's largest tiger reserve by area and the source landscape the Karnataka committee is examining for this tiger's dispersal route
The tiger (Panthera tigris) is listed in Schedule I, the highest level of protection, carrying the strictest penalties for hunting or trade.
Gave statutory status to the National Tiger Conservation Authority and created the framework for constituting tiger reserves with core and buffer areas.
Not a law but the international status benchmark - the tiger is classified as Endangered.
The advisory covers Hampi, the Group of Monuments inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986 and the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire, on the Tungabhadra river.
The Kishkindha region around Anegundi and Hampi is traditionally identified with the Vanara kingdom of the Ramayana - a culture-and-geography link exams like.
Remotely triggered cameras are the standard tool for species monitoring, population estimation and corridor studies, and supply the photographic capture-recapture data behind the All India Tiger Estimation.
A large carnivore outside a protected area triggers advisories, technical committees and corridor mapping rather than reserve management alone.
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"Project Tiger" was launched in India in which year?
Answer: 1973
A remotely triggered camera that photographs or records wildlife without human presence; used for monitoring, population estimation and movement tracking.
A strip of habitat connecting two larger habitat patches, allowing animals to disperse and gene flow to continue between populations.
Seasonal forest that sheds its leaves during the dry period, common across the Deccan.
Low-rainfall vegetation with sparse tree cover and thorny species, capable of holding prey and giving cover to large carnivores.
Centrally sponsored scheme launched in 1973 with nine reserves; now administered by the NTCA across 58 tiger reserves.