Up at 5.15am to cross the Denwa Backwaters and enter Satpura Tiger Reserve, a beautiful park in Madya Pradesh. It has to be one of India's most scenic Tiger Reserves in central India, the diversity of the terrain is impressive, its staff very professional. It is a National Park that is well worth while visiting for those who enjoy watching wildlife at peace in their natural environment.

Satpura Tiger Reserve in India's Madhya Pradesh State 2,200 km2 (850 sq mi) of unique central Indian highland ecosystem. The terrain is extremely rugged from 300 to 1,352 metres (984 to 4,436 ft) with sandstone peaks, narrow gorges, ravines and dense forests.

It has 1,300 species of plants, 50 species of mammals, 254 species of birds, 30 species of reptiles, and 50 species of butterflies. It is also known as Satpura National Park joined Project Tiger in 2000. Its name is from the Satpura mountain range. Some grasslands were created by relocation of 23 villages from the core area of the reserve. It has about 40 tigers so one has a probability of seeing tigers one in every drives. For us it was special as it was not over run by tourist jeeps. This is a record of our drives.

Our trip to Satpura, Pench, Tadoba, Kaziranga and Corbet, the five Tiger Parks of India:-

Part One - Our first Satpura Drive with a good sloth bears and cub sighting [ Ссылка ]

Part Two - Our 2nd Satpura Drive we see a massive herd of Guar or Indian Bisson [ Ссылка ]

Part three - Our third Satpura Drive we see a fish eagle with large fish [ Ссылка ]

Part Four - Pench Tiger Reserve - We follow a tigress for 15 minutes as she scent marks [ Ссылка ]

Part Five - Pench Tiger Reserve - We follow a leopard on the hunt [ Ссылка ]

Part Six - Pench Tiger Reserve - we see a tiger and two leopards [ Ссылка ]

Part Seven - Pench Tiger Reserve - we see a distant leopard on a kill then lying up on rocks [ Ссылка ]

Part Eight - Pench Tiger Reserve - A walk in Pench Forest with two Naturalist Rangers [ Ссылка ]

Part Nine - Pench Tiger Reserve - Our last drive we learn about the elephant rangers of Pench [ Ссылка ]

Part Ten - Tadoba Tiger Reserve - Two superb tiger sightings and the story of tiger human conflict [ Ссылка ]

Part eleven - Tadoba Tiger Reserve - Two superb tiger sightings and Tadoba's tiger human conflicts. [ Ссылка ]

Content of this video

00:00 Into - India & Project Tiger beginning
01:40 Satpura National Park map routes
02:19 Saranput drive to boats
03:10 Start of morning drive
03:35 Guides discuss tiger routes
07:01 Guar or Indian Bison
07:45 Jeep tiger looking positions
08:07 Indian Giant Squirrel
08:33 Racquet Tailed Drongo
09:35 Water hole spotting
13:34 Breakfast & Indigenous art
17:36 Wild boar
18:43 Crocodile
19:50 End of the drive & lunch

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