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Chhattisgarh announced that the Indravati Tiger Reserve in Bijapur district (south Bastar) will reopen to tourists on 1 November 2026, the first organised wildlife tourism there in about four decades.
Left Wing Extremism had kept around 70% of the reserve out of reach even of forest staff; its decline made the reopening possible.
The reserve holds a critical herd of 14-17 wild water buffaloes (Chhattisgarh's state animal) and around six tigers.
Indravati became a national park in 1981 and a tiger reserve under Project Tiger in 1983, and covers about 2,799 sq km.
Indravati lies in Bijapur district in south Bastar. The Indravati river, a tributary of the Godavari, marks its northern boundary and the Chhattisgarh-Maharashtra border. The landscape links to Tadoba-Andhari (Maharashtra), Kawal (Telangana) and Kanha (Madhya Pradesh).
Project Tiger launched
Indravati declared a national park
Indravati declared a tiger reserve under Project Tiger
Guru Ghasidas-Tamor Pingla notified as India's 56th tiger reserve, Chhattisgarh's fourth
Indravati to reopen to tourists after about four decades
States notify tiger reserves on NTCA's recommendation; each has a core/critical tiger habitat and a buffer.
Created the National Tiger Conservation Authority and gave tiger reserves statutory status.
Statutory body under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change that oversees Project Tiger and tiger reserves
GS Paper 3 > Conservation; Internal security (LWE)
General Awareness > National parks and tiger reserves
Among the following Tiger Reserves, which one has the largest area under "Critical Tiger Habitat"?
Answer: Nagarjunsagar-Srisailam
The term 'M-STrIPES' is sometimes seen in the news in the context of
Answer: Maintenance of Tiger Reserves
When was "Project Tiger" launched in India?
Answer: 1973
"Project Tiger" was launched in India in which year?
Answer: 1973
Bubalus arnee, Chhattisgarh's state animal; Indravati has one of its last herds in central India.
The core of a tiger reserve under Section 38V of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, kept inviolate for tigers.
Maoist insurgency that kept about 70% of Indravati off-limits to forest staff for decades.