Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh has been included in UNESCO’s ‘World Network of Biosphere Reserves’ list. Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar, while sharing the news on Twitter, congratulated the reserve for the situation and praised its work on tiger conservation. Adding the tiger reserve to the UNESCO list will help in discovering new measures towards the conservation and sustainability of wildlife.
Environment, Forest and Climate Minister Prakash Javadekar has tweeted that the Panna Tiger Reserve has now been declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. In his tweet, he congratulated the Panna Tiger Reserve for doing excellent work in tiger conservation. At present, there are 714 biosphere reserves in 129 countries.
Panna Tiger Reserve is the 12th tiger reserve in India. Along with the main sanctuary of tigers, crocodiles and other creatures are also in good numbers here. The Tiger Reserve, spread across Panna and Chhatarpur districts in the north of Madhya Pradesh, is located in the Vindhya Range. Panna Tiger Reserve was established in the year 1981 as a national park. In 1994, the Central Government declared the National Park as Panna Tiger Reserve. UNESCO has made Panna Tiger Reserve a part of its man and biosphere program.
Presently Panna Tiger Reserve is home to 56 tigers. Panna National Park is located in the border of Panna and Chhatarpur districts of Madhya Pradesh. The area of this park is 542.67 square kilometers. It was designated as the Biosphere Reserve on 25 August 2011. In 2007, the Ministry of Tourism of India was awarded the Excellence Award as India’s best maintained national park. The Cane River is the main attraction of this national park.
