For the wanderlust people, here it offers a wide-ranging opportunities for outdoor adventure in the heart of India. The untamed trees of the woods meandering down from their creators with lush green deep forest. Along with the wild life sanctuaries of Kanha and Pench reserves, abounding a wide range of flora and fauna are also the great sites for indulging in outdoor adventures. In fact, jungle safari adventure never cease to exist in this land of stupefaction.
Kanha National Park is a national park and a Tiger Reserve, which comes under the districts of Mandla and Balaghat of Madhya Pradesh, India. It stretches over an area of 940 km² in both the districts. Together with a surrounding buffer zone of 1009 km² and the neighboring 110 km² Phen Sanctuary it forms the Kanha Tiger Reserve. The park has a significant population of Royal Bengal Tiger, leopards, the sloth bear, Barasingha and Indian wild dog, and heavy weighted bison.
Kanha’s sal and bamboo forests, rolling grasslands and meandering streams stretch over it territory in dramatic natural splendor. This is original Kipling country, of which he wrote so vividly in his Jungle Book. The same abundance of wildlife species exists today in Kanha National Park, which forms the core of the Kanha Tiger Reserve created in 1974 under Project Tiger. The park is the only habitat of the rare hard ground barasingha (Cervus Duvaceli Branderi). By a special statute in 1955, Kanha National Park came into existence. Since then, a series of stringent conservation programs for the protection of the park’s flora and fauna has given Kanha its deserved reputation for being one of the finest and best administered National Parks in Asia, an irresistible attraction for all wildlife lovers and a true haven for its animal and avian population.
