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The area of Sariska, being a part of the Aravalli Range, is rich in mineral resources, e.g. copper. In spite of the Supreme Court's 1991 ban on mining in the area, marble mining continues to threat the environment. Some of the wildlife found in the Sariska Tiger Reserve include the Bengal tiger, leopard, jungle cat, caracal, striped hyena, golden jackal, chital, sambhar, nilgai, chinkara, four-horned antelope 'chousingha' (extinct), wild boar, hare, hanuman langur, Rhesus monkeys, and plenty of bird species and reptiles. Birds include Peafowl, Grey Partridge, Bush Quail, Sand Grouse, Tree Pie, Golden backed Wood Pecker, Crested Serpent Eagle and the Great Indian Horned Owl. The dominant tree in the forests is dhok (Anogeissus pendula). Other trees are e.g. salar (Boswellia serrata), kadaya (Sterculia urens), dhak (Butea monosperma), gol (Lannea coromandelica), ber (Ziziphus mauritiana) and khair (Acacia catechu). Bargad (Ficus benghalensis), arjun (Terminalia arjuna), gugal (Commiphora wightii) or bamboo can also be met at some places. Shubs are numerous, such as kair (Capparis decidua), adusta (Adhatoda vesica) and jhar ber (Ziziphus nummularia). |
![For years tigers have been loosing precious habitat and their numbers have continued to slide. But one breeding program hopes to increase their numbers. Here's that story. India's Ministry of Environment and Forests is taking measures to save its tiger population. Poaching and loss of habitat have caused the number of tigers to plunge to alarming numbers in India. On Tuesday, the minister of environment and forests, along with other forest officials, relocated a tiger to the Sariska reserve in Rajasthan. It's the fourth tiger relocated to the reserve for a captive breeding program. [Jairam Ramesh, Minister of Environment and Forests]: "When it was first planned, we decided that five tigers would be brought from Ranthambore. In the first stage, five will be brought and then later on our specialists will decide." Conservationists say that despite the ban on the use of tiger parts in medicines, the trade in skin and bones is booming in countries of the Far East such as China where everything from fur to whiskers, and eyeballs to bones, are in great demand.](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GFIcs-n8YPY/0.jpg)
