The Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) would be closed to tourists for four days from Sunday to hold a wildlife census. The reserve would reopen on November 29.
It may be recalled that MTR was thrown open to tourists just last Tuesday after being out of bounds since July 25 when the Supreme Court banned tourism in core areas of tiger reserves.
Later, the apex court gave a direction to reopen it, restricting tourism within 20 per cent of the core zone and ordering adoption of guidelines of the national tiger conservation authority to protect the animals and livelihood of the local people.
On the first day of reopening, 100 tourists visited the Mudumalai Reserve and sighted a tiger.
The MTR is spread over 321 sq.km and is home to tigers, Asian elephants, Indian gaurs, spotted deer and barking deer.
About 100 volunteers from NGOs and Nilgiris wildlife and environment association as well as forest officials participated in a wildlife census at MTR in last May.
Officials had said that numbers of wild animals had increased. A forest official said that the latest census results would be declared by the higher authorities later.