Updated On: 19 December, 2013 12:46 AM IST | | C Gangadharan Menon
There's good news for India's tiger conservation movement. Chandoli has been declared as part of the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve, thereby opening up an entire corridor to allow the big cat to move freely across this these forests of the Western Ghats
In 2010, the Chandoli National Park was declared as a part of the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra. This missing piece of a green jigsaw fell into place, finally, ensuring that a large tract of forests in the Western Ghats in Maharashtra fall into one continuous stretch.

Backwaters of Chandoli dam. Pics/C Gangadharan Menon