Kanha Tiger Reserve : Tigress Found Dead
A 2-year-old tigress was found dead in Kanha Tiger Reserve in Mandla district recently.
- Kanha Tiger Reserve, also called Kanha National Park, is located in the Mandla and Balaghat districts of Madhya Pradesh.
- It is the largest national park of Madhya Pradesh.
- It lies within a series of plateaus in the Maikal hills, east of the Satpura range.
- It was created on June 1, 1955, and in 1973, it was made the Kanha Tiger Reserve.
- It sprawls over an area of 940 sq.km.
- It is characterized mainly by forested shallow undulations, hills with varying degrees of slopes, plateaus and valleys.
- The forest depicted in the famous novel by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, is thought by some to be based on jungles, including this reserve.
- The region is known for some of the ancient tribal communities, like the Gond and Baiga, which still inhabit the region.
- It is also the first tiger reserve in India to officially introduce a mascot, “Bhoorsingh the Barasingha”.
