About Kanha Tiger Reserve:

• Kanha Tiger Reserve, also called Kanha National Park, is one of the tiger reserves of India and the largest national park of Madhya Pradesh, state in the heart of India.
• The present-day Kanha area was divided into two sanctuaries, Hallon and Banjar, of 250 and 300 km² respectively.
• Kanha National Park was created on 1 June 1955 and in 1973 was made the Kanha Tiger Reserve.
• Today it stretches over an area of 940 km² in the two districts Mandla and Balaghat.
• Together with a surrounding buffer zone of 1,067 km² and the neighboring 110 km² Phen Sanctuary it forms the Kanha Tiger Reserve.
• This makes it the largest National Park in Central India. Kanha Tiger Reserve was ranked in the top 10 Famous Places for Tourists.
• The park has a significant population of Bengal tiger, Indian leopards, the sloth bear, barasingha and Indian wild dog.

1. Recently Bird Survey 2017 has been conducted at this Tiger Reserve.
2. Kanha Tiger Reserve in the Madhya Pradesh, March 2017 became the first tiger reserve in India to officially introduce a mascot, named Bhoorasingh the Barasingha. Barasingha (Swamp deer) is the state animal of Madhya Pradesh.
3. The Kanha tiger reserve is the only place in the world where the species exists. The mascot will also species from possible extinction.