Sariska Tiger Reserve

Sariska Tiger Reserve (STR) in Alwar district of Rajasthan, notified in 2007 as a ‘Critical Tiger Habitat’, is spread over 881 sq km. and its strategic location right at the centre of the Golden Triangle of India’s Tourism (Delhi-Jaipur-Agra) offers great tourist potential. The key goal of Sariska Tiger Reserve is to "protect, preserve, control, and sustain representative habitats of the Aravalli hill ranges, as well as ecological processes and wild gene pool protection with an emphasis on Tiger and to accommodate a sustainable tiger population".

Sariska encapsulates, on the one hand, the ‘Natural Value’ with an excellent mosaic of wildlife habitat with 30,000 mammals and 220-plus bird species and the thick woodland, grasslands and open fields as well as very significant regional level water ecology of rivers, lakes, and water bodies, and on the other hand, a rich repertoire of ‘Cultural Value’ of historical remnants of forts, palaces and temples, as well as popular festivals & activities. 

The research assesses the existing situation, conceptually and empirically, and recommends an outline of five-prong sustainable approach: 

1. to develop inter-related strategies & related methodologies for a robust and wholesome ecology-economy-people centric projects and interventions,

2. to enhance user/visitor experience,

3. to save and manage water for long-term sustainability,

4. to revive tourism potential in the precinct, especially around assets like, Siliserh Lake and Kankawari Fort, and 

5. to promote community based eco-tourism.