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Widely considered the greatest of india's wildlife reserves Kanha
National Park encompasses some 940 Sq. Kms of deciduous forests.
Savanna grasslands hills
and gently meandering rivers - home to litrally hundread of species of animals and birds, including a
stable population of tigers.
Kanha National Park 160 km south east of jabalpur is one if India's largest national parks, covering 1945
Sq. Km including a 'core zone of 940 Sq Km. It has a beautiful area
of sal forests and lightly wooded grasslands with many rivers and
streams
that support excellent wildlife. It is also the part of
project tiger.
Wildlife was first given lmtd. protection here as early as 1933 but
it wasn't until 1955 that the area was declared a national park. A
policy of wildlife management over the pas t30 years ha been a
steady increase in the number of tigers and leopards as well
assambar chital (spotted dear)
and gaur (Indian Bison) .There is
a good chance of sightings tigers, qaur and herbivores and this is one of the best places in the state
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Beautiful Kanha and its animals have had an up-and-down history. The
same Brits who cantered across the continent with their rifles,
driving game to the brink of extinction, also set aside Kanha as a
hunting preserve, saving it from the encroachment of the local
population. Kanha became a wildlife reserve in 19IJ3, and its nearly
2000 square kilometers of untainted jungle served as the setting for
Rud-yard Kipling's Jungle Book. With about 120 tigers in the park,
sightings are frequent, and the tiger population only keeps
increasing (though not too quickly, as the males like to nip
competition in the bud by eating their sons). Once a tiger is
spotted, it is held at bay by elephants until everyone gets a look.
Besides the well-fed tigers, you can also see their friends (and
food): leopards, deer, sambar, wild boar, bears, pythons,
porcupines, and over 300 species of birds. Your chances of seeing a
tiger here are better than anywhere in India.
The park is most easily reached via Jabalpur, 160km to the
northwest. Buses run from Jabalpur to Kisli, the main gate entrance,
stopping first at Khatia Gate, near the Visitors Center, where most
non-MPTDC accommodations and food can be found (6hr; 7 and Ham,
return buses at 8am and 12:30pm; Rs68). Kisli is 4km inside Khatia
Gate. Mukki, another park gate, is 32 km southeast, and has only a
handful of high-end resorts. Jeeps (RslO per km) are the necessary
mode of transportation. The park is open Nov.-June sunrise to
sunset. Entry fees Rs200 per person per day. Vehicles RslOO. Guides
Rs90. When tigers are sighted, elephant rides are conducted for
close-up viewing .
History:
The park, which forms the core of the Kanha Tiger Reserve (1,945 sq
km) within the game reserve, created in 1974, also protects the rare
hardground-adapted barasingha (swamp deer). George Sclialler, the
zoologist, conducted the first ever scientific study of the tiger
here and research is also being done on deer and langur habitat.
Kanha is 2,000 sq km in size. It has a horseshoe-shaped valley, and
grasslands surrounded by the Satpura Mountains, standing at heights
ranging between 450 and 900m. Comprising the Banjar and Halon
valleys of the erstwhile princely provinces of Central India, it
became an hunting ground for the British from 1879-1910. In 1933,
Kanha was established as a sanctuary and declared a National Park in
1955. The park has a rare species of barasingha, which live in a
hard-ground habitat.
It's believed that the name Kanha came from the texture of the soil
found in the area. The soil is sandy in Banjar Valley in Kanha,
Kisli and Mukki ranges. In the lower pockets, the soil is finely
textured and tends to be somewhat clayey. It is locally called
kanhar, and this apparently gave the park its name.
Though one of India's better-protected Project Tiger reserves,
conservationists do have their worries about Kanha. This is due to
its proximity to impoverished villages, and its closeness to Nagpur,
which is known as an illegal wildlife trade hub in Central India.
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