Corbett National Park is closed for tourist during the monsoon season, but that hardly puts a stop to unwanted visitors. In order to check illegal activities such as poaching during this period, forest officials have launched Operation Monsoon which involves short and long range patrolling to save tigers and other animals in the park during the monsoon season.

The Operation involves 500 forest staff who are divided in a number of groups of 8-10 members and each group is given the responsibility of patrolling different areas. The aim is to protect the tigers in the core and buffer areas of the park and increase their numbers through breeding.

Corbett National Park remains closed during the monsoon due to bad roads and over flowing of many rivers and streams flowing through the park. As such, earlier poachers have taken advantage of situation when security has also becomes more relaxed. But now Corbett forest officials have improved their security cover in the last few years. They are further trying to improve their patrol team with upgraded security systems. Long distance patrolling in the park has proved very successful, where officials combine their forces with surrounding units and conduct joint patrol operations to check for any illegal activities. In fact the Uttarakhand state has been involved in inter state patrol with Uttar Pradesh.

Corbett National Park is named after Jim Corbett, a hunter turned conservationist and is located in the Himalayan foothills and has the highest number of tigers among any National Parks in India, approximately 164 tigers. Corbett National Park is also one of the oldest National Parks in the country and the first of the members to be a part of Project Tiger, a central government operation launched to conserve and protect tigers in various National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries across the country.