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Panna National Park is situated in the central India state i.e
Madhya Pradesh.
Panna National Park is famous for its
diamonds also but also home to some of the best wildlife. Panna
National Park is famous for its wild cats, including tigers as
well as deer and antelope.
The most important part of Panna National Park is that that
the panna makes the northernmost boundaries of natural distribution
of treak & eastern limits of teak - karadhai mixed forests.
Panna National Park is India's 22nd tigers reserve is awesome in
wildlife and stimulated the primordial hunting instinct in man,
whether with gun or camera. Panna National Park beatify the
countryside with its aquamarine waters and a few perennial springs
forms the prime source of drinking water for animals. Panna National
Park is
valleys and plateaux, grassy
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which sheets of sparkling curtains of acquit
roll down present eye popping vistas all around. Panna National Park
has a variety of almost 20 mammals. Panna National Park is famous
worldwide for its wild cats including tigers as well as deer and
antelope. Panna National Park is famous for its best known Indian
tourist attraction and also a famous stop over destination in India.
History:
Established as a National Reserve in 1981 and made part
of Project Tiger in 1994, Panna is one of India's youngest tiger
reserves. Spread over 542.67 sq km, Panna National Park was created
from the hunting reserves of the princely states of Panna,
Chhatarpur and Bijawar. In 1975, the north and south Panna Forest
Divisions were declared as the Gangau Wildlife Sanctuary.
There are a few villages inside the park's boundaries, and it hasn't
achieved the fame of nearby Kanha or Bandhavgarh, where the forest
staff can (or could until very recently) virtually guarantee a tiger
sighting. In some respects, that is a blessing. Unlike in
Bandhavgarh or Kanha, you don't have to follow a queue of jeeps into
the reserve and sit idling in exhaust fumes as you wait for a 30-min
lumber through the bushes on elephant back. On each of the four days
I spent in Panna, the three jeeps bearing guests of the Ken River
Lodge were the only ones in the reserve, resulting in a brilliant
trip for a day-dreainer with fantasies of uncharted jungle tracks.
This lack of tourists is remarkable, given the park's wonderful
location. Trees common in Panna include teak, tendu, mahua and saiai.
Panna claims to host as many as 35 tigers (estimates given by the
park) but a more realistic figure would be about 20. In recent
times, however, there have been reports that the tiger population in
Panna is declining. The national park's proximity to diamond and
sandstone mines proved detrimental for its denizens, and its fragile
environs were polluted because of mining activities of the National
Mining Development Corparation (NMDC) of Majhgaon/ Hinouta. (Legend
traces the Kohinoor diamond to this sleepy town in Madhya Pradesh.)
The NMDC mines were shut down recently because of a lawsuit filed by
the park authorities.

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