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Kanha Tiger Reserve India

Kanha Tiger Reserve, also known as Kanha-Kisli National Park, is one of India’s major tiger reserves and the largest national park in Madhya Pradesh, a state located in the heart of India. The area now known as Kanha is divided into two wildlife sanctuaries, Hallon and Banjar, covering approximately 250 and 300 km² respectively. Kanha National Park was established on 1 June 1955 and was designated as Kanha Tiger Reserve in 1973. Today, it covers an area of about 940 km² across the Mandla and Balaghat districts. Together with a surrounding buffer zone of around 1,067 km² and the neighbouring 110 km² Phen Sanctuary, it forms the wider Kanha Tiger Reserve landscape. This makes it the largest national park in Central India, and it has been ranked among the top ten most famous tourist destinations in the country. The reserve supports a healthy population of Royal Bengal tigers, along with Indian leopards, sloth bears, barasingha (swamp deer) and Indian wild dogs. The forest portrayed in Rudyard Kipling’s classic novel The Jungle Book was inspired in part by jungles that include this reserve. Kanha is also notable for being the first tiger reserve in India to officially adopt a mascot, Bhoorsingh the Barasingha. Kanha lies across both Mandla and Balaghat districts, located roughly 30 km from Mandla and 80 km from Balaghat, making it reasonably accessible for visitors exploring Central India.

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Jabalpur (JLR)

Kanha Tiger Reserve, India

Kanha Tiger Reserve India