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conservation aged 16 when he first encountered  tigers in Karnataka. He dislikes crowded cities. “I’ve spent 330 days in the jungle over the last year,” he said as we planned forays into three of Dudhwa National Park’s tiger sanctuaries. The reserves are part of a nationwide network of some 50 sanctuaries that have helped reverse the decline of Indian tigers since the government’s initiative, Project Tiger back in 1973. Amith said the ‘official’ estimate around Dudhwa is roughly 100 tigers. “I’d be surprised and happy if there was half that number,” he declared. But despite the successes of Kishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary’s forest conservation, these big cats are still being persecuted. Read next: 10 top spots to see India's tiger in the wild “Recently I found one dying in a snare,” Amith told me. “It was the unhappiest moment of my life. But I saw two tigers yesterday. You will find the experience here very different to sanctuaries like Ranthambhore (in Rajasthan) where 10 vehicles might be watching one tiger. These forests are remote and parts of them inaccessible so sightings are very special.” “We leave tomorrow at 5am for Dudhwa,” he announced, before departing for bed. Yet what a magnificent place to look for them. The Terai Arc is a 34,000 sq km alluvial lowland mosaic of forests and swamps incised by the south-flowing Yamuna and Ganges rivers issuing from the Himalayas. Much of it is located beneath southern Nepal’s lower foothills but I would enter it from the Indian... .

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a Nepalese rajah hunting on elephant back had been mauled by a tiger. The gate is named after the act of sati, self-immolation by fire, performed by the rajah’s wife on his funeral pyre. Shortly we reached the park headquarters and while Amith collected game-drive permits I said hello to some very underemployed safari elephants. These domesticated elephants carry visitors to see another star in Dudhwa’s firmament, Asian one-horned rhinos. These vulnerable rhinos roam wild here albeit within an anti-poaching enclosure encompassing 25 sq km. In India they’d been blasted into extinction by poachers by 1885 then reintroduced in Dudhwa a century later largely from Nepalese stock and after steady breeding now number 33. It’s rare to see wild elephants yet they were the reason I wouldn’t see any rhinos and why the safari elephants, including a youngster who shovelled down a banana from my lunchbox, were underemployed. “Three big wild tuskers broke into the rhino enclosure trying to mate with these safari elephants and the wardens can’t get them out so it’s closed,” explained Amith, as I visualised being pursued by five tonnes of oversexed elephant. Amith said he’d never ride one to see the rhinos. “My mother worships the elephant-god Ganesh so would never forgive me if I sat on one.” We soon picked up the tiger tracks he’d seen the previous day but they quickly went cold. “There are two ways we track tigers,” said Amith. “They fear no predators, so they use the sandy vehicle tracks... .

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harem and swamp deer up to their haunches in viscous bog: their rufous sodden fur smouldering at sundown, 12-tined antlers resembling skeletal trees shorn of leaves. This IUCN red-data listed species has evolved webbing around its hooves. “They can literally walk on water,” commented Amith. We tried for tigers again the next day at Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary on the upper Ganges floodplain, leaving with lunchboxes of curried potato-stuffed parathas. Amith was still seething over yesterday’s narrow miss. “I had a crazy dream last night that a tiger was in the jungle laughing at us,” he sighed.  Katarniaghat is another outlying sanctuary of Dudhwa, and Amith believed 20 tigers inhabit its dry golden-hued savannah, swamps, and flooded forests that border the River Girwa. Upon arrival we picked up a local spotter, Mohammed, who’d seen two leopards fighting the previous day yet hadn’t seen tigers in a while. We made two game drives, morning and late afternoon, straining to hear distress calls and failing to find tracks. Throughout the day we saw India’s largest antelope, a male nilgai with its blueish-grey coat, and shuddered at fat-headed mugger crocodiles. As for red junglefowls, I couldn’t take them seriously. “That’s a chicken, escaped from a farm,” I complained. “No, no,” insisted Amith. “It’s the chicken.  The mother of all chickens.” Yet a truly sublime boat trip on  the River Girwa fully justified the wildlife sanctuary’s logo: ‘Where rare is common’. Of 18 species classified as vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered across Dudhwa’s network, few... .

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