#Kanha_National_Park
#National_Park_series
✅Kanha National Park is a national park and a Tiger Reserve.
✅Location: It is located in the Mandla and Balaghat districts of Madhya Pradesh.
✅ It is the largest national park in Madhya Pradesh.
✅In the 1930s, Kanha area was divided into two sanctuaries, Hallon and Banjar, of 250 and 300 km².
✅Kanha National Park was created on 1 June 1955.
✅Together with a surrounding buffer zone of 1,067 km² and the neighbouring 110 km² Phen Sanctuary it forms the Kanha Tiger Reserve.
✅Fauna: The park has a significant population of Royal Bengal Tiger, leopards, the sloth bear, Barasingha and Indian wild dog.
✅The Park is respected globally for saving the Barasingha from near extinction.
✅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.
