Question

The name of Billy Arjan is most closely associated with which among the following national parks of India?
A. Jim Corbett National park
B. Dudhwa National park
C. Panna National park
D. Rajaji National park

Answer 1

Billy Arjan Singh is an Indian hunter who turned into conservationist and author. He tried to reintroduce the tiger and leopards. He died in his famous farmhouse on 1 January 2010. He settled down to a life of farming and hunting.

Step by step answer: Billy Singh was a hunter but turned into conservatism by providing conservation efforts for wildlife by reintroducing leopards and a tiger into the wild of Dudhwa National Park. He begins by bringing up a male leopard cub that he named as Prince which he successfully reintroduced to the wild in 1973. To provide Prince with a mate he subsequently raised two female leopards’ cubs that he named as Harriet and Juliette. In July 1976, he acquired a hand-reared female tiger cub named Tara and reintroduced her to the wild in the Dudhwa National Park with the permission of India's Ex-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
In the 1990s, some tigers were seen in the protected area, which had a Siberian tiger those are having
1. A large head
2. Pale pelage
3. White complexion
4. Wide stripes
Arjan Singh sent their hair samples to the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad. Where the samples were analyzed using mitochondrial sequence analysis. It is indicated that their mother was a Bengal tiger. However, samples of two hybrid specimens constituted a too small base to conclusively presume that Tara was the source of the Siberian tiger genes.
So, the correct option is option B. Dudhwa National park.

Note: Dudhwa national park is a national park found in the Terai belt of marshy grassland found in the area of northern Uttar Pradesh of India. It covers an area of 490.3 km square. It represents the few remaining areas of the diverse ecosystem supporting many endangered species as well as obligate species.