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1Clear out junk files and repair common Windows errors2Scan for outdated or missing drivers - takes under a minute3Repair Windows errors before they cause bigger problemsFormer Indian civil servant Aditya “Dicky” Singh and his wife, Poonam, bought private land beside Rajasthan’s Ranthambore National Park and largely left it to recover. Their Bhadlav project began around 1999, after they moved to Sawai Madhopur in 1998. Accounts describe invasive-species removal and small water features, while the owners and collaborators have reported wildlife—including tigers—using the land. It remains a local conservation example, not an expansion of the legally protected reserve or a measured demonstration of population growth.
Who bought the land, and where is it?
Aditya “Dicky” Singh was a former Indian civil servant. He and his wife, Poonam, moved to Sawai Madhopur in 1998 and began acquiring land at Bhadlav beside Ranthambore National Park around 1999, according to Mongabay’s 2020 account and the property’s conservation page.
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The reported area depends on how the parcels are counted. The property page describes 35 acres adjoining the park. Mongabay describes about 35 acres at Bhadlav, and separately mentions another five acres a few hundred metres away and a strip connecting the parcels. Those accounts should not be collapsed into a single precise total.
The land was privately acquired. Neither source says it was formally incorporated into the tiger reserve, so the project did not amount to an official enlargement of the protected area.
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How did the land recover?
The approach was mainly to give the land room to recover rather than plant a designed forest. Mongabay quotes Singh describing the work this way: “I just bought this [land] and did nothing to it except removing the invasive species.”
Water was another part of the reported effort. Singh described creating water holes to Mongabay. The property page says the additions were small earthen check dams in natural depressions, where they collect monsoon water. These are accounts of the project’s methods, not a published assessment of how much habitat or water availability changed.
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What wildlife has been reported there?
Mongabay reported visits by tigers, leopards and wild boars. Singh told the outlet that prey, water and shelter drew animals to the land. The property page says the couple worked with Tiger Watch to install camera traps and document animal activity; it lists tigers, leopards, wild cats, mongoose, porcupine and spotted deer among the animals recorded.
The property page also quotes Tiger Watch field director Dharmendra Khandel saying, “The tigers rest on this land,” and reports that tigers sometimes remain there for several days. These observations support the narrower claim that wildlife use of the property has been reported by its owners and collaborators; the sources do not provide an independently audited wildlife survey.
What the account does—and does not—show
Mongabay reported that farmers were selling plots near the reserve boundary after predators began visiting the area. It also said pressure on nearby farms from predators went down. The available reporting, however, supplies no baseline, controlled comparison or verified measure of conflict reduction, so it cannot establish that the land purchases caused that change.
- What is documented: the couple acquired land beside the reserve, used a largely passive recovery approach, and reported wildlife activity there.
- What is not established: whether wildlife populations increased because of the project, the project’s broader long-term ecological effects, or how representative this one property is of restoration near Ranthambore.
The acreage and camera-trap accounts describe the site and reported observations; they are not impact statistics. This distinction matters: evidence that animals use a parcel is not, by itself, evidence that their population grew or that nearby human-wildlife conflict fell because of it.
Independent reader supportYour contribution helps us test, update, and keep practical guides available for everyone.What happened to the project after Aditya Singh’s death?
The Ranthambhore Bagh conservation page says Aditya Singh died in 2023 and describes the project as continuing as a family legacy. It does not independently detail current management practices, so the present-day work should not be assumed to be unchanged from the earlier accounts.
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