The famous Kanha tiger reserve carries out a wide range of biodiversity conservation practices. These practices over the past several decades have revived this great ecosystem, with a variety of predator and prey species. Some of these are endangered and iconic. These biodiversity conservation practices include stringent protection of wildlife and their habitats, habitat improvement, monitoring of vegetation and wildlife, fire management, and confidence building measures for

It was a very fortuitous encounter on a late November afternoon at Kanha. The slanting rays of the setting sun were falling on the ground through the lush leafy vegetation. I had seen the predator from a distance amid langur’s guttural calls, and stopped the vehicle to watch through the field glasses the finer nuances of the concluding part of its hunt. The sturdy leopard was dragging the chital across the forest road, and became wary for a moment to see the approaching vehic