Jim Corbett National Park India (Uttarakhand)

Jim Corbett National Park is a famous national park of India. This is world renowned park for the tiger conservation. Jim Corbett national park is attributed to the Jim Corbett who played important role in its establishment, Jim Corbett National Park is the oldest national park of India. Initially the park was established in 1936 as Hailey National Park located in Nainital district of Uttarakhand state.

The Jim Corbett National Park is a heaven for the adventure enthusiast and wildlife adventure lovers. Jim Corbett national Park is India's first national park which comprises 512.8 km area of hills, riverine belts, marshy depressions, grass lands and large lake and streams. The elevation ranges from 1275 feet to 4,000 feet. Winter nights are very much cold but the days are sunny. It rains from mid of June to September end.

History of Jim Corbett National Park
The forest reserve was private property of local rules around 1815-1820. The British took over the whole area and developed as their own hunting ground. In the year 1936 the area was reserved for wildlife and named Haily National Park. Later became Jim Corbett National Park – named after a great hunter turned conservationist Jim Corbett who played an very important role in the establishment of the beautiful national park.

Dense moist deciduous forest mainly consists of papal, sal, haldu, rohini (elephant feed) and mango trees, these trees cover almost 71 per cent of the park. The 10 per cent of the region consists of grasslands. It houses around 110 tree species, around 50 species of mammals, 580 bird and 25 reptile species. The rare Royal Bengal tiger of India resides here. The sanctuary was the first to come under Project Tiger initiative in 1973.

Jim Corbett National Park Geography
The Jim Corbett National Park is positioned between 29-25' to 29-39'N latitude and 78-44' to 79-07'E longitude. The standard altitude of the region ranges between 360 m (1,181 ft) and 1,040 m (3,412 ft). The present area of the Reserve is 1,301.58 square kilometers (509.09 sq mi) including 520 square kilometers (200 sq mi) of dense core area and 797.72 square kilometers (308.00 sq mi) of buffer part. The core area forms the jim corbett national park while the buffer contains reserve forests (496.54 square kilometers (191.72 sq mi)).

Jim Corbett National Park Climate
As far as the climate is concern, it is very normal place. The climate is same as other grass land in India. The temperature may vary from 8 C to 31 C in winter season and some mornings are foggy between Decembers to January. Summer temperatures likely do not raise above 43 C. Rainfall starts from mid June and continues to September ends.