Corbett National Park

Ramganga National Park could be the name of the Corbett National Park in the future. Ashwini Kumar Choubey, MoS Forest and Environment hinted at the renaming of India’s first national park, which extends over an area of ​​around 521 km.

Highlights

• Animal lovers have expressed their disgust at the likely name change.
• If Jim Corbett Park is renamed, this will not be the first time. The park, called Hailey National Park when it was established in the year 1936.
• The park was renamed two decades later in honor of hunter and conservationist Jim Corbett. Though it was also called Ramganga National Park in between as the Ramganga, which is a tributary of the Ganges, crosses it.
• The wildlife lovers speaking against this decision have said that more care should be taken in preserving the heritage of this park, instead of just changing its name.

About Jim Corbett

In the year 1875, Edward James Corbett was born in Nainital and helived in India until independence. He then went to Kenya, where he died in 1955. India’s most famous hunter, Corbett, became famous after tracking down and killing several tigers and leopards (supposedly killing more than a dozen). But he was also known  as a storyteller, whose shikar threads and stories about the forest wowed his audience, and later as a conservationist. The government had regularly ordered Corbett, one such marksman, to track down and shoot man-eaters in the villages of Garhwal and Kumaon in Uttarakhand. Corbett and his family came every winter from the hills  to his winter home in Kaladhungi in the hills, which is now a museum. He wrote many books on his hunting expeditions which are captured  in the The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag, Man-eaters of Kumaon, More Man-eaters of Kumaon, The Temple Tiger, etc.

About Corbett National Park

It is located in Uttarakhand’s Nainital District. The  Tiger project was launched in 1973 in Corbett National Park (India’s first national park), which is part of the Corbett Tiger Reserve. The national park was founded in the year 1936 to protect the endangered Bengal tiger and it was named Hailey National Park. It is named after Jim Corbett, who played a key role in its creation. This majestic forest is also home to a variety of animal species which includes more than 600 species of birds and around 600 elephants.