Bandhavgarh
National ParkBandhavgarh National Park is set among
the Vindhya Hills of Madhya Pradesh with an area of 168 square
miles. This national park contains a wide variety of habitats and
high density of game, including a large number of tigers. Over half
the area is covered by sal forests and there are stretches of bamboo
and grassland.
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Ranthambore
National ParkRanthambore National Park is situated in
India’s northwestern state of Rajasthan, near the town of Sawai
Madhopur, midway between Bharatpur and Kota townships. This national
park is surrounded by the Vindhya and Aravali hill ranges and is
very near to the outer fringes of the Thar Desert. The entire area
has sprawling tracts of the desert and semi-desert vegetation.
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Sundarbans
National ParkThe Sundarbans National Park is the home
of the Royal Bengal Tiger, also has the largest mangrove forest in
the world. The Sundarban region got its name from Sundari trees,
once found in abundance here, owing to the constant accumulation of
silt left by the Ganga and Hoogly Rivers.
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Bandipur
National ParkThis National Park is halfway down the
Mysore-Ooty highway, the Deccan Plateau rises to meet the wrinkled
folds of the Western Ghat mountains. It is situated within
Chamarajanagar district in the southern Indian state of Karnataka,
and abuts the states of Tamil Nadu & Kerala. Endowed with a
moderate climate and diverse geographical features, the park
supports a remarkable variety of flora and fauna, making it a
veritable paradise for wildlife.
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Kaziranga
National ParkKaziranga National Park is famous for
the great One-Horned Rhinos. Tigers which are natural enemies of
rhinos are also there in sizable numbers in this area. Other
attractions of this national park include the wild buffalo,
magnificent swamp deer, hog deer, wild boar, Hoolok gibbon, capped
langur and ratel (badger).
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Kanha
National ParkKaziranga National Park cum Tiger
reserve is located in the Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh. It
extends over an area of over 1,940-sq-kms. The major feature of this
region's interesting topography is the horseshoe shape valley and
the whole park area is surrounded by the spurs of the Mekal. The
Surpan River meanders through Kanha's central Maidans, grasslands
that cover the extensive plateau. Steep rocky escarpments along the
edges offer breathtaking views of the valley.
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Manas
National ParkManas National Park or Mana, also known
for its Rhinos and Elephants, is Assam's one of the two Tiger
projects of Assam (second one is Nameri Tiger Reserve) and extends
over varied territory, taking in hills and river valleys on the
border with Bhutan. The scenic beauty and rare wealth of wild life
combine with this unique world heritage site to offer one of the
most enthralling experiences.
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Corbett
National ParkCorbett national park also known as
Hailey National Park was established in 1936 and is the first to
come under project tiger. The park is located in the Paltidum valley
at the base of the Himalayas in the Uttar Pradesh and spreads over
an area of 520 sq. km. Corbett national park is named after the
legendary hunter- naturalist Jim Corbett.
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Pench
National ParkPench is one of the most accessible
tiger reserves in the country, just 90 kilometres (1 hour and 30
minutes) north of Nagpur. This National Park is a part of the
Project Tiger network of special reserves. The Reserve is located in
the southern reaches of the Satpura hill range in the Seoni and
Chhindwara districts in the Madhya Pradesh State of India.
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Royal
Chitwan National ParkThere are more than 43 species
of mammals in the park. The park is especially renowned for the
endangered one-horned rhinoceros, the tiger and the gharial
crocodile along with many other common species such as gaur, wild
elephant, four-horned antelope, striped hyena, pangolin, Gangetic
dolphin, monitor lizard and python. Other animals found in the park
include the sambar, chital, hog deer, barking deer, sloth bear, palm
civet, langur and rhesus monkey.
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Hazaribagh
National ParkNestling in low hilly terrain, at an
average altitude of 615 meters in the Indian state of Bihar, the
Hazaribagh National Park has an abundance of wild animals like the
wild boar, sambar, nilgai, chital, sloth bear, tiger and panther.
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Keoladeo
Ghana National ParkKeoladeo Ghana National Park was
formerly a vast semi-arid region, filling with water during the
monsoon season only to rapidly dry up afterwards. To prevent this,
the Maharaja of Bharatpur diverted water from a nearby irrigation
canal and, within a few years, birds began to settle in vast
numbers.
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Nagarhole
National ParkAlso known as Rajiv Gandhi National
Park, Nagarhole National Park has an astonishing abundance of
wildlife, especially the Asiatic elephant. The backdrop of the
distant misty blue Brahmagiri Mountains, the natural sounds of the
jungle, the gurgling of streams and rivers and the twittering of the
birds make Nagarhole a memorable experience.
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Marine
National ParkGujarat has the distinction of creating
the country’s first Marine National Park spread over an area of
nearly 458 sq.kms. in the Gulf of Kutch, 30 km. from Jamnagar. Here
corals create fantasies in stone and are the master builders of the
Park. Their limestone fortresses – those found near the Pirotan
Islands and the rich moist deciduous forests like those found in the
dense forests of the Danes. One of the most threatened birds, the
great Indian bustard finds a refuge in certain pockets of protected
areas.
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Sultanpur
Lake National ParkLocated in Gurgaon district of
Haryana, about 50 km from Delhi and 15 km from Gurgaon on the
Gurgaon - Farukh Nagar Road, Sultanpur National Park and Bird
Sanctuary is famous for migratory. This park is best visited in
winters when a large number of migratory birds come here.
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Rajaji
National ParkSurrounded by the major cities like
Dehradun, Rishikesh & Haridwar, Rajaji National Park has the
significance due their beauty and religeous importance. The
abundance of nature’s bounties heaped in and around this park,
are bound to attract a large number of wildlife conservationists,
nature lovers and eco-friends to visit this most breathtaking
wilderness area.
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Dibru
- Saikhowa Wildlife National ParkDibru Saikhowa
Wildlife National Park is one of the 19 (nineteen) biodiversity
hotspots in the world. It mainly consists of semi wet evergreen
forests. Dibru-Saikhowa is a safe haven for many extremely rare and
endangered species of wildlife including over 300 avifauna both
endangered and migratory, as well as various species of shrubs,
herbs and rare medicinal plants.
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Great
Himalayan National ParkThe park officially known as
the Jawaharlal Nehru Great Himalayan National Park, was established
in 1984 in Kulu district. Bounded by the towering peaks of the
Himalayas on three sides with an entrance from the west, the park
covers an area of 620sq.km.of the previously-established Tirthan
Sanctuary.
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Panna
National ParkThe park officially known as the
Jawaharlal Nehru Great Himalayan National Park, was established in
1984 in Kulu district. Bounded by the towering peaks of the
Himalayas on three sides with an entrance from the west, the park
covers an area of 620sq.km.of the previously-established Tirthan
Sanctuary.
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Hemis
National ParkThe park was established in the year
1981 to preserve the dwindling population of wildlife in Ladakh
region with an area of 600 sq km. The park has been earmarked as one
of the snow leopard reserves under a central government project to
conserve the species, its prey population, and fragile mountain
habitat.It takes its name from the world famous Buddhist Gompa
situated here.
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Dudhwa
National ParkDudhwa National Park is situated on the
Indo-Nepal border in District Lakhimpur-Kheri of Uttar Pradesh, ia a
Tiger Reserve with an area of 614 sq. Km is one of the finest, of
the few remaining examples of the exceedingly diverse and productive
tarai eco-systems. The northern edge of the reserve lies along the
Indo-Nepal border and the southern boundary is marked by the river
Suheli.
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Eravikulam
National ParkThe Eravikulam National Park was
established to protect the Nilgiri Tahr, an endangered specie of the
wild goat and the only one to be found south of the Himalayas. Rich
in forest and grasses, this park is relatively new as it was in 1978
that the area was notified as a park.
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