Kanha Tiger Reserve: ✅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". ✅Flora: It is primarily a moist Sal and moist mixed deciduous forest where Bamboo, Tendu, Sal, Jamun, Arjun, and Lendia flourish. ✅Fauna: It has a significant population of Royal Bengal Tiger, leopard, sloth bear, and Indian wild dog. #national_park_series #tiger_reserve_series #places_in_news