Wildlife Conservation & Restoration Tourism
- About Wildlife Conservation & Restoration Tourism in India. Feature Information
about Wildlife Parks, Tiger Reserves & Bird Sanctuary in India.
Wildlife Conservation in Panna
Panna National Reserve was created in 1981. It was declared a Project Tiger
Reserve in 1994, the 22nd in the country and 5th in the State.
The National Reserve consists of areas form the former Gangau Wildlife Sanctuary
created in 1975. This sanctuary comprised of territorial forests of the present
North Panna Forest Division to which a portion of the adjoining Chhatarpur Forest
Division was added later.
The reserved forests of the Reserve in Panna district and some protected forests
on Chhatarpur district were the hunting preserves of the erstwhile rulers of
Panna, Chhatarpur and Bijawar princely states.
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