The Project Tiger which was established with an initiative of the Government of india under the leadership of the then Prime Minister Late Mrs. indira Gandhi in the year 1972.The first national park that was declared in 1973 in Uttrakhand as a part of the Project Tiger was the JiM CORBETT NATiONAL PARK named in honor of the legendary hunter turned conversationalist, author and photographer, Lt Col Jim Corbett who spent most his life in the area and helped in setting up the park. The idea was to save the alarmingly dwindling population of Panther Tigris or the tiger by establishing special reserves that offer a large enough natural habitat for the tiger and other wild life animals. The main objectives of the ambitious project tiger were to create and maintain natural habitats that can effectively help to rehabilitate and conserve wildlife in india and to maintain a viable tiger population for scientific, ecological aesthetic and cultural values. And the JiM COBBETT NATiONAL PARK under this initiative has shown a remarkable increase in the dwindling population of the wild cats(latest stats reveal 148 Tiger's inhabiting the jungle spread in over 550 sq.km approx).Not just Tiger's the CORBETT has a remarkable population of other endangered species such as ELEPHANT'S , BEAR , GHARiYAL , WiLD BORE , DiFFERENT VERiTiES OF DEER'S AND MUCH MUCH