Accomplished Electrical Engineer and senior manager with extensive Silicon Valley experience in research and development, strategic planning, and electronic systems. Kanha Tiger Reserve Wikipedia. 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 2. Kanha National Park was created on 1 June 1. Kanha Tiger Reserve. Today it stretches over an area of 9. Mandla and Balaghat. Together with a surrounding buffer zone of 1,0. 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 1. Famous Places for Tourists. The park has a significant population of Bengal tiger, Indian leopards, the sloth bear, barasingha and Indian wild dog. The forest depicted in the famous novel by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book is said to be based on the jungles of this reserve. It is also the first tiger reserve in India to officially introduce a mascot, Bhoorsingh the Barasingha. Kanha Tiger Reserve is home to over 1. 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 Dendrocalamus strictus on slopes. A very good looking Indian ghost tree Davidia involucrata can also be seen in the dense forest. Kanha Tiger Reserve abounds in meadows or maidans which are basically open grasslands that have sprung up in fields of abandoned villages, evacuated to make way for the animals. Kanha meadow is one such example. EVENTS ENTERTAINMENT. Hello Tanzania Tours Safari Next to Epidor, Haile Selasie Road, Masaki P. O. Box 68970, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. There are many species of grass recorded at Kanha some of which are important for the survival of barasingha Cervus duvauceli branderi. Dense forested zones with good crown cover has abundant species of climbers, shrubs and herbs flourishing in the understory. Aquatic plants in numerous tal lakes are life line for migratory and wetland species of birds. Meadows at Kanha. Open forest at Kanha. Tiger at Kanha hiding in bamboo. Axis in Kanha. Kanha Tiger Reserve has species of tigers, leopards, wild dogs, wild cats, foxes and jackals. Among the deer species, swamp deer Cervus duavcelli branderi or hard ground barasingha is pride of the place as it is the only subspecies of swamp deer in India, except the Great Swamp Deer of Sundarbans. The animal is adapted to hard ground unlike swamp deer of the north which live in marshy swamps. The reserve has been instrumental in rescuing the swamp deer from extinction. Indian gaur Bos guarus, belonging to the ox genus, is found in Kanha but seen mostly as winter ends. Safari Magazine Gujarati Pdf 2015' title='Safari Magazine Gujarati Pdf 2015' />In summer gaur inhabit meadows and water holes in the park. Other commonly seen animals in the park include the spotted deer, sambar, barking deer and the four horned antelope. The latter can be seen at Bamni Dadar climb. Recently, mouse deer have also been discovered in the tiger reserve. Blackbuck have inexplicably become very rare. They vanished completely, but have been reintroduced recently inside a fenced area in the park. Nilgai can still be seen near the Sarahi Gate, while the Indian wolf once commonly seen at Mocha is a rare sight now. Striped hyena and sloth bear are seen occasionally. Activar Windows Xp Sp3 Bloqueado on this page. Langurs and wild boars are common, but the pugnacious rhesus macaque is seen less often. Nocturnal animals like fox, hyena, jungle cat, civets, porcupine, ratel or honey badger and hares can be seen outside the park confines. The Reserve brings around 3. Indian roller, lesser adjutant, little grebes, lesser whistling teal, minivets, pied hornbill, woodpecker, pigeon, paradise flycatchers, mynas, Indian peafowl, red junglefowl, red wattled lapwing, steppe eagle, tickells flycatcher, white eyed buzzard, white breasted kingfisher, white browed fantail, wood shrikes and warblers among many more. Reptiles like Indian pythons, Indian cobras, krait, rat snakes, vipers, keelbacks and grass snakes are nocturnal animals, and are therefore rarely seen. There are many species of turtles as well as amphibians found in or near the water bodies. Kanha and Satpura National Park being a part of Gondwana, now famous as a tiger reserve, was once ruled by wild Indian elephants. Tigers killing a wild boar. Kanha is most famous for its tigers. The gaur is the largest wild animal in the park. Two dholes at Kanha. Kanha is the last refuge of the rare hard ground barasingha. A male hard ground barasingha. Pregnant tiger. Reintroduction of barasinghaeditAn exciting conservation effort in this national park is the reintroduction of barasingha. The gaur will be relocated to Bandhavgarh and some barasingha will be relocated to Satpura Tiger Reserve The objective of this project is to introduce about 5. There is also a project to capture about twenty tigers and relocate them to Satpura Tiger Reserve. Tiger conservation and the Baiga tribeeditMembers of the Baiga tribe, a semi nomadic tribe of central India that is reliant on the forest, lived in 2. Kanha National Park until 1. The relocation was part of an effort to maintain a critical tiger habitat. The land to which they were relocated is barren and they now suffer from alcoholism and malnourishment, and beg to support themselves. The last of the villages to be relocated for the tiger habitat is in the core zone of the Kanha Tiger Reserve. The area is the ancestral home of the Gond and Baiga tribes. In January 2. 01. Baiga tribe were illegally evicted from the park without proper compensation from the government, according to Survival International. In its efforts to maintain and restore tiger habitats, WWF India has worked to create corridors that support the tigers and their prey, thereby stabilizing the tiger population. This includes efforts to prevent loss of life or property of humans, reduce human dependency on the forest, and reduce retaliatory killings of tigers when people have experienced losses. General informationeditKanha Tiger Reserve is citation neededArea core 9. Terrain sal and bamboo forests, plateaus, meadows and meandering streams. Best season February to June. Morning visiting hours 6 3. Evening visiting hours 3 0. Closed 1 July to 1. October. Transportation and accesseditThe Jabalpur Airport 1. Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Pune, Belgaum and Bhopal, with Air. India, Spice. Jet and Zoom Air operating daily flights. Nagpur 2. 60 km and Raipur2. Jabalpur is major railway stations with train connectivity across India. From Jabalpur, the best way to travel is via Mandla, which has a tourist taxi service to the park, and Nainpur perhaps with an overnight stop. Mandla, Nainpur and Seoni all have sports clubs, Internet cafes, guides, Christian churches and some beautiful temples. There are three gates for entrance into the park. The Kisli gate is best accessed from Jabalpur and stops at the village Khatia, inside the buffer area. The second gate is at Mukki and the third, most recently opened, gate is at Serai. Ecosystem ValuationeditAn economic assessment study of Kanha Tiger Reserve estimated that the tiger reserve provides flow benefits worth 1. Important ecosystem services from the tiger reserve include gene pool protection 1. Other services included recreation value 3. See alsoeditReferenceseditSourceseditK.