After the Valmiki Tiger Reserve (VTR) in West Champaran district, Bihar is set to get a second tiger reserve in Kaimur district (Kaimur Wildlife Sanctuary) by the end of the year or early 2024. The total tiger count in the State currently is 54.

• The State Forest Department officials said they were working to obtain the National Tiger Reserve Conservation Authority’s (NTCA) approval for declaring it a tiger reserve.
• Earlier, tigers were spotted in the Kaimur hills area. A report of the NTCA said that the tiger population in the Valmiki reserve has increased from 31 in 2018 to 54.
• The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has also notified Veerangana Durgawati Tiger Reserve as the 7th Tiger Reserve of Madhya Pradesh with a view to ensuring the conservation of wild animals.
• With the creation of these two tiger reserves the total number of notified Tiger reserves in India now stands at 56. Dholpur- Karauli Tiger Reserve of Rajasthan was the 54th Tiger reserve in the country.