Local Guardians Back to Protect Sariska Tigers

The New Year augurs well for the Sariska Tiger Reserve, for the local guardians of the 400 sq km sanctuary nestling in the lap of the Aravallis are back vowing to protect the land, the trees, the fauna and the apex animal, tiger.

One could visualise the return of the lovely days for Sariska as early this past week villagers in the neighbourhood of the park -- which had lost all tigers in the wild some years back to alleged poaching -- inspired by Waterman Rajendra Singh started a 19-day padyatra committing themselves to protection of this precious island of bio-diversity towards which the metropolis of Delhi is stretching its hands greedily!