Kanha Tiger Reserve (KTR)

About Kanha Tiger Reserve (KTR):

• Kanha Tiger Reserve, also called Kanha National Park, is the largest national park of Madhya Pradesh.
• Location:
  • It is located in the Mandla and Balaghat districts of Madhya Pradesh.
  • It is nestled in the Maikal range of Satpuras, the heart of India that forms the central Indian highlands.
• Kanha National Park was created on 1 June 1955, and in 1973 was made the Kanha Tiger Reserve. 
• The forest depicted in the famous novel by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, is thought by some to be based on jungles, including this reserve. 
• It is also the first tiger reserve in India to officially introduce a mascot, "Bhoorsingh the Barasingha".
• Flora:
  • The lowland forest is a mixture of sal (Shorea robusta) and other mixed forest trees interspersed with meadows. 
  • The highland forests are tropical moist dry deciduous type and of a completely different nature with bamboo on slopes (Dendrocalamus strictus). 
• Fauna:
  • The park has a significant population of Royal Bengal Tiger, leopards, the sloth bear and Indian wild dog. 
  • The Park is respected globally for saving the Barasingha (the state animal of Madhya Pradesh) from near extinction.