What the Terai Arc Actually Is
The Terai Arc Landscape is a 49,000-square-kilometre belt of grassland, riverine forest, and sal woodland running along the base of the Himalayas, from India's Uttarakhand in the west through Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, crossing into Nepal's lowland Terai districts and back. It holds eleven protected areas on the Indian side and three major national parks in Nepal, including Chitwan and Bardia. WWF identified it in 1997 as one of the planet's most critical tiger habitats, not because it was pristine, but because enough of it remained connected to be worth fighting for.
