Katarniyaghat Wildlife Sanctuary, a unit of the Dudhwa Tiger reserve, remains the safest haven for the wildlife in the state. While the last census carried out by Project Tiger gave an estimated count of 110 big cats in the entire Dudhwa National Park, the state census in 2005 put the figure for Katarniyaghat alone at 58. And it is not the tiger population alone that is increasing here, ghariyals and the Gangetic dolphins, two wildlife species that are threatened everywhere in the country, are also flourishing in this area. Tiger sightings have been better in this area, a thing testified by two-fold increase in tourist traffic to Katarniyaghat and the shooting of a number of films there. One reason for the changed scenario is the success of the Forest department in checking poaching activities in this wildlife sanctuary. Katarniyaghat