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The prohibition connected safari astatine fashionable destinations Kabini, Nagarhole, and Bandipur has benefitted the Bannerughatta Biological Park (BBP), which saw grounds numbers during the precocious concluded vacation season.
Safari operations successful the fashionable tiger reserves were halted pursuing a bid of tiger attacks successful the H.D. Kote and Sargur regions.
According to information shared by Surya Sen A.V., Deputy Conservator of Forests and enforcement director, Bannerughatta Biological Park, the days betwixt December 20, 2025, and January 5, 2026, saw grounds footfall and safari visitors. This play witnessed 1,95,763 full footfall, of which 1,06,215 were safari visitors and 89,548 visitors to the zoo. December 27 saw a whopping 18,425 instrumentality the safari - the highest successful the period.
In the aforesaid play past twelvemonth (2024-2025), the full footfall stood astatine 1,89,309, of which 96,527 were visitors to the zoo and 92,782 took the safari. During the aforesaid play the years earlier (2023-2024 and 2022-2023), these numbers stood astatine 1,66,330 footfall, 79,754 zoo visitors and 86,576 safari users, and 1,60,590 footfall, 89,283 zoo visitors and 71,307 safari users respectively.
This came adjacent arsenic the BBP had its ain stock of hiccups successful 2025. The parkland resumed safari operations aft a impermanent suspension successful the backdrop of a 2nd leopard onslaught during a safari successful a substance of 4 months.
On November 13, 2025, a 56-year-old pistillate who was taking the non-AC autobus safari astatine the BBP was injured aft a leopard clawed her. The pistillate sustained a insignificant wounded to her manus erstwhile the leopard accidentally clawed her portion attempting to ascent onto the bus. Non-AC autobus safaris were suspended temporarily pursuing the incidental and resumed aft further information measures, including no-gap mesh for the autobus windows.
Earlier, successful August, a 12-year-old lad was clawed by a leopard astatine the BBP portion travelling successful a safari autobus erstwhile helium had placed his manus successful an accessible spot adjacent a window. Following the incident, Minister for Forest, Ecology, and Environment Eshwar Khandre had instructed officials to instal mesh and designated photography holes connected the windows of each safari vehicles.
Mr. Sen said since the incident, the leopard successful question was not allowed to roam successful the unfastened during the safari.
According to the park, the safari scenery successful the parkland is simply a practice of the adjoining adust and moist deciduous forests of the Bannerghatta National Park, which is location to a wide assortment of fauna which are often spotted wrong safari range.
