The area is the ancestral home of the Gond and Baiga tribes. The last of the villages to be relocated for the tiger habitat is in the core zone of the Kanha Tiger Reserve. The land to which they were relocated is barren and they now suffer from malnourishment. The relocation was part of an effort to maintain a critical tiger habitat. Members of the Baiga tribe, a semi-nomadic tribe of central India that is reliant on the forest, lived in 28 villages that had been within the Kanha National Park until 1968, when they were relocated. ![]() There is also a project to capture about twenty tigers and relocate them to Satpura Tiger Reserve. The objective of this project is to introduce about 500 barasingha in this national park to eight or nine different locations. The gaur will be relocated to Bandhavgarh and some barasingha will be relocated to Satpura Tiger Reserve. Reintroduction of barasingha Īn exciting conservation effort in this national park is the reintroduction of barasingha. The reserve hosts around 300 species of birds and the most commonly seen birds are the black ibis, Asian green bee-eater, cattle egret, plum-headed parakeet, Indian pond heron, drongo, common teal, crested serpent eagle, Indian grey hornbill, Indian roller, lesser adjutant, little grebe, lesser whistling teal, minivet, Malabar pied hornbill, woodpeckers, pigeon, Indian paradise flycatcher, hill myna, Indian peafowl, red junglefowl, red-wattled lapwing, steppe eagle, Tickell's blue flycatcher, white-eyed buzzard, white-breasted kingfisher, white-browed fantail, wood shrikes, warblers, and vultures among many more. The gaur inhabits meadows and waterholes in the park. The barasingha is adapted to swampy areas. Kanha Tiger Reserve hosts populations of Bengal tiger, Indian leopard, dhole, sloth bear, Bengal fox and Indian jackal. A notable Indian ghost tree ( Davidia involucrata) can also be seen in the dense forest. The highland forests are tropical moist, dry deciduous type and of a completely different nature from bamboo ( Dendrocalamus strictus) on slopes. The lowland forest is a mixture of sal ( Shorea robusta) and other mixed-forest trees, interspersed with meadows. Kanha Tiger Reserve is home to over 1000 species of flowering plants. It is also the first tiger reserve in India to officially introduce a mascot, Bhoorsingh the Barasingha. The park hosts Bengal tiger, Indian leopard, sloth bear, barasingha and dhole. ![]() This makes it the largest national park in central India. ![]() Together with a surrounding buffer zone of 1,067 km 2 (412 sq mi) and the neighbouring 110 km 2 (42 sq mi) Phen Sanctuary, it forms the Kanha Tiger Reserve, which is one of the biggest in the country. Today, it encompasses an area of 940 km 2 (360 sq mi) in the two districts Mandla and Balaghat. ![]() Kanha National Park was created on 1 June 1955 and was designated a tiger reserve in 1973. The present-day Kanha area is divided into two protected areas, Hallon and Banjar, of 250 and 300 km 2 (97 and 116 sq mi), respectively. Kanha Tiger Reserve, also known as Kanha–Kisli National Park, is one of the tiger reserves of India and the largest national park of the state of Madhya Pradesh.
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