Nature Trails India Pleased to introduce Tiger Tracking Tour, for all tiger & wildlife lover from all over the world.  Tiger Tracking Tour offers something different for those who want to learn & know how to track tigers in wild.During the trip you will search for tigers and their prey in tiger reserves of India. You will also have the opportunity to take guided walks with park rangers and the elephant team.  This tour will focus on tiger habitat, behavior, involvement of local peoples in saving the wild tigers.  For enquiry call: UK: (44) 2030516839 US : (1) 347-468-8439,  E-mail :- ntrails@gmail.com www.naturetrailsindia.info

        

Hello!!

Pleased inform you all Wildlife & Tiger Lovers.

In Bandhavgarh National Park 2 more tiger cubs recently born, in the Bamera Dam Area.

The Bamera Dam Area is recently open for tourist for excursion with joy ride on elephant back, earlier it was open only for birdwatching.

We are hoping more tiger sightings in this area.

We visit Bandhavgarh National Park on our tour many tiger tracking tours.

For tour details please visit our website http://www.naturetrailsindia.info or email: ntrails@gmail.com

        

Nature Trails India, a brand of Nature Trail Tours India Pvt. Ltd. Please to inform you all, that Nature Trails India launched website for Spa Holidays in India, with details of different types of spa & Ayurvedic treatments, places to visit  for spa vacations etc.

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The Great Indian Rhinoceros, also called the Greater One-horned Rhinoceros, is characterized by the single horn on its nose and by the loose folds of its thick skin. The horn is seen on both male and female Rhinos but not young ones below a year in age. It consists of keratin - a protein present in human hair and nails - and can grow from 20 to 60 cm in size. Adult male Rhinos have the largest horns.

Zoological name: Rhinoceros Unicornis

Range: The Great Indian Rhinoceros is found in India, Bhutan and Nepal in wildlife sanctuaries in the sub-Himalayan belt. It is found in the Brahmaputra valley in Assam (where the largest population of Rhinos worldwide exists in Kaziranga National Park), in the Chitwan valley in Nepal and in lowland Bhutan.

Estimated population: The estimated population of wild rhinoceroses in national parks worldwide is approximately 2400 of which 1600 are in India, primarily in the Kaziranga and Manas wildlife sanctuaries in Assam in North East India.

Physical characteristics: The Indian Rhinoceros was described by early travelers as a unicorn because of its single horn. The Rhinoceros has a somewhat pre-historic appearance and looks as if it has armor plates, because of the loose folds of its thick hide, which is a dark brown or blackish color and can also be gray in some cases. A fully-grown male Rhino can reach up to 1.8 meters high and 3.6 meters long and can weigh over 2 tonnes (or 2000 Kg). The distinctive horn of the Rhinoceros is seen after Rhinos are a year old and can grow to a size of 20 - 60 cm.

Habitat: The Indian Rhinoceros is found in marshy lowlands. Tall grass, thick forests, and swamps are Rhino territory. The Rhino spends a significant amount of time during the day, wallowing in mud or marshy pools.

Diet: The Indian Rhinoceros feeds on grass, leaves and twigs. It usually feeds in the morning and evening and spends the hot daytime cooling off in a mud wallow. The prehensile upper lip of the Rhino helps it in feeding.

Behavior: The Indian Rhinoceros is usually a solitary animal. Calves live with their mothers for several years. Male Rhinos are known to fight over territory and during the mating season. The Rhino's horn is used as a threatening display as well as to attack other male Rhinos or any intruders in its territory. Rhinos can run fast, up to 55 Kmph for short distances and rely on their sharp sense of smell and hearing. Their eyesight is comparatively poor. Rhinos live for 30-45 years in the wild and have been recorded as living up to 47 years in captivity.

Status: The Indian Rhinoceros is an endangered species. The pressure of human populations on the last remaining habitats of the rhinoceros, poaching for the sake of its horn and tiger predation of its calves are threats to its continued survival in the wild.

Tourists can see the Indian Rhinoceros in the Kaziranga National Park and Manas Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam.

We visit Kaziranga National Park on our tour "Big Five Of India" & Customized trip for Rhino watching tours.

For tour details please visit our website http://www.naturetrailsindia.info or email: ntrails@gmail.com

        

We please inform all wildlife & tiger lovers, that we have just received good news from the forests of the Pench Tiger Reserve.A Tigress gave birth to four cubs raising the total number of Tiger cubs in the reserve forest area to 16. At present there are 33 adult Tigers in the Pench Tiger Reserve. Earlier this year, Pench won the award for the best maintained Tiger reserve in India. The forest protects 758 square kilometers of prime Tiger habitat, and inspired Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book.

We visit Pench National Park and other Tiger Reserves on our new tour "Tigers of Pench, Kanha & Bandhavgarh National Park".

For tour details please visit our website www.naturetrailsindia.info or email: ntrails@gmail.com

        

We please inform all wildlife & tiger lovers, that we have just received good news from the forests of the Pench Tiger Reserve.A Tigress gave birth to four cubs raising the total number of Tiger cubs in the reserve forest area to 16. At present there are 33 adult Tigers in the Pench Tiger Reserve. Earlier this year, Pench won the award for the best maintained Tiger reserve in India. The forest protects 758 square kilometers of prime Tiger habitat, and inspired Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book.

We visit Pench National Park and other Tiger Reserves on our new tour "Tigers of Pench, Kanha & Bandhavgarh National Park".

For tour details please visit our website www.naturetrailsindia.info or email: ntrails@gmail.com

        

Nepalese scientists have recorded a new subspecies of bird at Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve (KTWR) of east Nepal.

The bird was first recorded by Ornithologist and Chairperson of Nepal Rare Birds Committee (NRBC).The bird was identified as Rufous-vented Prinia bringing Nepal’s total bird list to 862 species. The bird is known as Prinia burnesii to the scientific community. The new taxon from Nepal is referred to as Nepal Rufous-vented Prinia Prinia burnesii nipalensis.

The other two subspecies of Rufous-vented Prinia, the first one Prinia burnesii burnesii is found in Pakistan in the west along the tributaries of Indus River and adjacent Punjab in India, and the second Prinia burnesii cinerascens is found in Assam in the east along the Bramhaputra river systems and adjoining states of India and Bangladesh. The newly described bird shows somewhat intermediate characters between the two subspecies and appears to form a link between them, is found in the Ganges river systems which is the other major river system in the India subcontinent.

The adult of this new subspecies has overall olive-grey to light brown plumage. The head and nape are greyer compared to the browner back, wings and tail. In most individuals, there is faint whitish supercilium which reaches behind the eye. The head is densely streaked compared to back. On the back, the streakings are bolder compared to the ones in head. The juveniles are similar to adults but slightly less marked on the head and body. Light rufous undertail coverts were visible in one young bird caught. All birds seen and heard were located on grassland patches on small islands of the Koshi River. The grass species in the area included Saccharum spontaneum, S. arundinacea, Typha elephantine, and Phragmites karka. Sparsely dotted young sissoo Dalbergia sissoo trees and xeric bushes Casurina spps. were also present. They were absent in heavily disturbed grasslands adjacent to villages indicating their preference for less disturbed grasslands.

It is a resident breeding species and highly threatened in the country because of habitat loss and degradation. Future surveys might reveal its presence in grasslands in different parts of the country.

Conservationists in Nepal already listed the species as critically endangered for the country and emphasized as a candidate species for IUCN Red Data list.

        

The range of the Asiatic Lion once extended throughout Asia-Minor and into Eastern Europe but loss of habitat and persecution from man relentlessly reduced their numbers until today, the only remaining population is in the Gir Forest, a patch of remnant forest in the Saurashtra Peninsula of Gujarat. Thanks to the protection afforded to animals by the former Nawabs of Junagadh the lions managed to survive here through decades of slaughter elsewhere in the country and granting of National Park status in 1975 further ensured their continued preservation. An estimated 327 Lions roam the 141,000 hectares of the sanctuary and maintain an uneasy relationship with a significant population of Maldhari tribesmen settled within the reserve boundaries along with their 20,000 head of cattle.

We visit Gir National Park on our tour "Big Five Of India".

For tour details please visit our website www.naturetrailsindia.info or email: ntrails@gmail.com

        

This workshop is for beginners & armature wildlife, nature lovers are welcome from all parts of the world.

 

This workshop is minimum for 3 days to maximum 15 days.

 

In this workshop nature lovers will visit the bird sanctuaries in India & In 3 days capsule course workshop we will try to make you identify 30 to 50 different species of birds, will also help you in taking great images for reference of your work in Nature. In last we will give the certificate for appreciation of your work in saving the nature ,this certificate will also sign by Planet Era Foundation.

 

For more details please contact Mr.Bhardwaj (Director) bhardwaj@naturetrailsindia.info or tours@naturetrailsindia.info or you