Kanha Tiger Reserve is one of India’s most famous national parks, known for its wide open meadows, sal forests, bamboo groves and misty morning vistas. The park shelters tigers, leopards, wild dogs, barasingha (hard-ground swamp deer), gaurs and many bird species. Characteristic images include green meadows with herds of barasingha, tree-lined tracks, and light filtering through tall sal trees. The buffer zone has eco-resorts and village stays, making it a major center of wildlife tourism in MP.
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History & highlights
Kanha was first notified as a sanctuary in the 1930s and later as a national park in 1955. It became one of the original Project Tiger reserves in 1973. Conservation programmes here are particularly famous for saving the barasingha, whose numbers had dropped dangerously low; habitat management and protection helped the species recover. Kanha’s landscapes and wildlife inspired Rudyard Kipling’s “Jungle Book” spirit (along with Pench), and it has become a model site for research, eco-tourism and community engagement in tiger conservation.
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