Balsamand Lake, JODHPUR

Balsamand Lake is a lake situated 5 km from Jodhpur on Jodhpur-Mandore Road. The lake is the a popular picnic spot. This artificial lake was built in 1159 AD by Balak Rao Parihar. It was a water reservoir to provide water to Mandore. The lake has a length of one kilometre, breadth of 50 metres and a depth of 15 meters.

The Balsamand Lake Palace was built later as pleasure or summer palace on its shore. The lake is surrounded by lush green gardens that house groves of trees like mango,papaya, pomegranate, guava and plum and many animals and birds like jackal and peacock.

"TIGER conservation" == "Fateh Singh Rathore"

Fateh Singh Rathore (10 August 1938 - 1 March 2011) is India's best known tiger conservationist. Fateh Singh joined the Indian Forest Service in 1960 and was part of the first Project Tiger team. He was widely acknowledged as the tiger guru for his legendary knowledge of the big cat.^[1] He worked over 50 years in wildlife conservation.^[2] Rathore was noted for his pioneering relocation of villages from inside the Ranthambhore National Park in 1973-75. Largely because of Mr. Rathore, “Ranthambhore became the place which brought the tiger to the consciousness of people the world over.”

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