Ramgarh Vishdhari Wildlife Sanctuary is a tiger reserve in Rajasthan, India. It was declared as a tiger reserve in the 2022.
Geography Ramgarh Vishdhari Wildlife Sanctuary is located in Bundi, Bhilwara and Kota districts of Rajasthan. It was declared as a wildlife sanctuary in 1982 and a tiger reserve in 2022. It encompasses the area of Ramgarh Sanctuary, a section of the National Gharial Sanctuary, and the territorial forest areas of the Bundi and Bhilwara divisions. The total area of the reserve is , including a core of and buffer of . It connects Ranthambore National Park with Mukundara Hills National Park. The Mej River, a tributary of the Chambal River, flows through the tiger reserve.
Wildlife Ramgarh Vishdhari Wildlife Sanctuary hosts the sambar deer, chital, wild boar, Indian wolf, leopard, striped hyena, sloth bear, golden jackal, chinkara, and nilgai.
Following its designation as a tiger reserve, a few tigers were translocated; a tiger from Sariska Tiger Reserve that had wandered into Haryana was relocated to Ramgarh Vishdhari Tiger Reserve. By December 2024, the reserve supported four adult tigers and three cubs.
Further reading Prasad, Rajendra. "Impacts of Anthropogenic Activities on the Ecosystem of Mej River." (2021). Sharma, O. P. "Vegetation and Characteristics of Different Physical Regions of Ramgarh VishdharyWildlife Sanctuary, Rajasthan." (2022).
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