Editorial policy and corrections

How we research, label and update what this site says about Ranthambore National Park, its tigers and the safari rules, and how to tell us when we have something wrong.

Ranthambore Tiger books safari permits in your name — we are not the Rajasthan Forest Department and not the official park booking website.

Policy in force since 4 November 2026.

Who writes this site

Every guide is written and signed by Dr. Mahin Ateek, who founded Ranthambore Tiger and lives in Sawai Madhopur, with the drivers and guides who take our guests into the park. Each guide shows its author, the date it was published and the date its content last changed. We do not publish unsigned articles and we do not buy articles from content farms.

Where our facts come from

We separate three kinds of information and label them in the “Sources and how we know” block at the foot of each guide:

Official. Permit fees, quotas, release times, zone closures, safari timings and rules come from the Rajasthan Forest Department’s booking portal and notices. We check the portal ourselves, on the dates we state, and we do not publish a fee or a timing we have not seen there.
Research and press. Tiger numbers, named tigers, their T-numbers, family lines and deaths follow the National Tiger Conservation Authority, the Wildlife Institute of India’s status reports and reports in the national press, which we link to.
Our own observation. Which zones have been productive, where a tigress has been raising cubs, what the lakes look like in March: this is what our drivers and guides see on their own safaris. It is dated, it is experience, and it is never a promise. Territories shift every season and no zone can guarantee a sighting.

We do not present an old sighting as a current one. When we say a tiger “holds” an area we mean in recent seasons, as reported to us; we do not publish precise current locations of individual animals.

Prices and availability

Our all-in prices (permit, vehicle, guide, pickup) are our own and are shown as ours. The official per-seat fee is shown separately on the pages that compare the two. Availability shown on this site is what we saw on the official portal at the time stated; it changes by the minute at release time, which is why every online booking is “permit in your name or full refund”.

Photographs and video

Wildlife photographs are our own or are used with the photographer’s permission and credited on the photo credits page. We do not publish AI-generated images of wildlife as if they were real photographs, and we do not animate still photographs.

How pages are kept current

Every page carries a visible “Updated” date, which moves only when the content changes, not when the site is redeployed. Fee, timing and rule pages are re-checked whenever the Forest Department announces a change, and at least at the start of each season (October) and before the summer timings (April). Tiger pages are reviewed when a named tiger is reported dead, moved or newly identified.

Commercial disclosure

Ranthambore Tiger earns from the safari permits, vehicles and stay-and-safari packages it books for guests. There is no third-party advertising on this site and no page is sponsored. Hotel pages describe properties we have placed guests in; a hotel’s position on those pages is not sold.

Corrections

If you find an error of fact — a fee, a timing, a tiger’s lineage, a distance — tell us and we will check it against the source and correct the page, normally within two working days. Material corrections are noted on the page itself with the date. Send corrections to contact@ranthamboretiger.com or WhatsApp +91 84400 22066.

Corrections log:

4 Nov 2026 — Famous tigers of Ranthambore: Arrowhead’s death was given as 19 June 2024 in one paragraph; the correct date is 19 June 2025 (PTI). Fixed and noted on the page.