Talk:Indian national parks and wildlife sanctuaries

Older version of national parks of India - if changes made to main page are ok we can dump this or put it back

National parks

• 1 Bandhavgarh National Park, Madhya Pradesh — among the best national parks of India where Asian tigers can be easily viewed

• 2 Bandipur National Park, Karnataka — famous for its tiger and elephant reserve and protected sandalwood trees

• 3 Bannerghatta National Park, Karnataka — dense forest and scrub land is home to wild animals such as tiger, lion, bison, leopard and wild boar

• 4 Betla National Park, Jharkhand — near the village of Betla it is one of India's first national parks formed for the protection of tigers

• 5 Blackbuck National Park, Gujarat — open grassland that is home to blackbuck and nilgais (Blue bison)

• 6 Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand — a spectacular panorama of the jungle and its many species of birds, reptiles, flora etc.

• 7 Dudhwa National Park, Uttar Pradesh — an expanse of approximately 811 sq km of marshes, grasslands and dense forests

• 8 Gorumara National Park, West Bengal — is rich in large herbivores including Indian rhinoceros, birds, reptiles and amphibians

• 9 Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh — one of the most beautiful and well managed of all national parks in India

• 10 Kaziranga National Park, Assam — one of the oldest National parks in India and home to the one horned Indian rhinoceros

• 11 Kudremukh National Park, Karnataka — undulating mountains and tropical wet evergreen forest

• 12 Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park, Andaman and Nicobar — a national park of India in Wandoor on the Andaman Islands

• 13 Mudumalai National Park, Tamil Nadu — offers a variety of flora and fauna plus the opportunity to go on an elephant safari

• 14NOT EXISTING LISTING IMAGE Nagarhole National Park, Karnataka — an exclusive hunting reserve it is a well managed park with tiger, gaur and elephants

• 15 Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh — has various species of animals such as monkeys, deer, tigers and lions

• 16NOT EXISTING LISTING IMAGE Periyar National Park, Kerala — home to one of India's largest tiger populations

• 17 Pirotan Island, Gujarat — a marine national park

• 18 Ranthambore National Park, Rajasthan — one of the best places in India to see tigers in the wild

• 19 Sariska Reserve and National Park, Rajasthan — one of the most famous national parks in India and designated as a tiger reserve

• 20 Sundarbans National Park, West Bengal — a wildlife sanctuary with Royal Bengal Tigers and deer found in forests and mangrove swamps

• 21 Valley of Flowers National Park, Uttarakhand — famous for its outstanding natural beauty, endangered animals and endemic alpine flowers

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  Blackbuck
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  Indian elephant
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  Sloth Bear at Bannerghatta
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  Malibar Barbet
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  Indian Cobra
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  Nilgirie langur in a tree
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  Indian Peacock, India's national bird
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  Rose-ringed Parakeet
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  Shikra
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  Blue Tiger
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  Olive Ridley Turtle

Listy?

This article has beautiful pictures, but it's a long, though annotated, list. Would it be best to just merge this material as relevant to articles for individual states and territories, and then redirect this page to India? Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:14, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

Ahhhhh!, I already incorporated them to their appropriate states and territories - can just leave it as it in case anyone wants to view this long list as reference - I don't think many will go to this page... The park page for the US is just as long - Matroc (talk) 05:26, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

ps - I created Bhandarej page because I didn't want to see the only red link on the Jaipur page - :)!

You're right. I couldn't find that article before; it's at United States National Parks, and I was searching under "National Parks of...", "American" and so forth. That article is indeed a similarly long list, but at least it has more content: A lede and "Understand" and "Fees/Permits" sections. Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:43, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

Pictures of animals in zoos

I was just looking at the information on some of the photos, and I saw that one was from the Nuremburg Zoo and another from the San Antonio Zoo. Don't you all think we should use photos from Indian national parks and wildlife sanctuaries only? Photos from zoos are cheating, in my opinion, and I'd like to remove them from this article. Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:29, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks - originally was doing a slide show of animals etc. found in India and used examples found in Commons - but I agree, when doing parks etc. that it is better to show animals, birds, etc. in their natural/local habitat... I did not find the San Antonio Zoo one - could you point it out for me and I will change it. - changed another one I found as well ... Matroc (talk) 05:33, 4 October 2015 (UTC) (Found image and clouded leopard will be changed or removed!)

I'm looking through all the photos now. The peacock is from the Duisberg Zoo, the crocodile is from St. Augustine Alligator Farm, the clownfish is in the Great Barrier Reef, the Valley of Flowers photo is used twice (I'll delete the second instance). I'm not seeing anything from the San Antonio Zoo now. Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:12, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

All changed - 1 removed - Matroc (talk) 07:43, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Yes, I noticed you found replacements for all except the clownfish. Good job! Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:55, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

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• Thank you - also found on another page and replaced image there as well -- Matroc (talk) 00:56, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Too many images

On my browser, the last 4 images are entirely below the end of the codes at the end of the article, and attempting to show photos of everything is in opposition to Wikivoyage:Image policy#Minimal use of images. This site is not the place for photo galleries; those should be on Wikimedia Commons. I will remove the last 4 thumbnails, but more should be removed, so that there isn't a long, unbroken stream of photos on the right side of the page. Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:45, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

It's taking at least 15 second to load on my browser. I'd say delete the last eight or so. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 11:54, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Please go ahead. I want to eventually try to sleep again... Ikan Kekek (talk) 12:11, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

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I'm not finding this photo in any Wikivoyage article. Is it visible in any? Ikan Kekek (talk) 17:05, 14 March 2022 (UTC)