Each state will have six months to prepare a conservation plan to protect the tigers. Image: fotocommunity.com

Tourism activities on India’s tiger reserves will recommence this month after the country’s Supreme Court lifted the visitor ban on all 41 parks.

Announced earlier this week, the Court announced the three month ban would be lifted from 20 October this year, however, would require parks to run in accordance with the new National Tiger Conservation Authority, Wanderlust reported.

According to the Authority, each state will have six months to prepare a conservation plan to protect the tigers and no more than 20 percent of core tiger habitat will be used for “regulated, low-impact tourism visitation”.

The guidelines also stress that no new tourism infrastructure will be permitted to be built in the areas, while existing tourism infrastructure within critical tiger habitats would be required to be phased out.

The ban on tiger reserves was implemented in July this year, and according to media received backlash from tourists, tour operators and conservationists.