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History of Kanha National Park |
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Kanha is a National Park and Tiger Reserve which is located in the Mandla and Balaghat districts of Madhya Pradesh,India. Kanha was divided into two sanctuaries,Hallon which covers 250 square kilometers and Banjar which covers 300 square kilometer.
The Hallon and Banjar valleys were reserved as the hunting grounds for the Britishers. This area of Kanha was full of swamp deer or hardground barasingha,but over-hunting led to their numbers being depleted and the forest was closed for hunting in 1931.
In 1955,the Banjar valley,was upgraded to a National Park. This was done with special legislation and was the culmination of furore that followed the ruthless hunting of 30 tigers by the privileged hunters in the area in and around the Banjara valley and Hallon valley.
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Saving the hardground Barasingha, whose numbers fell down significantly was another reason for making the National Park. The initial area of National Park was 253 sq.km but it was expanded to 318 sq.km in 1962,after that in 1970, the Mulki Valley was added which has taken the area to 446 sq.kms.
Initially when project Tiger was started in 1973,nine Tiger Reserves were selected and Kanha National Park was one of them.
Under project Tiger,the Hallon valley was integrated into the park as a sanctuary in 1974 and as a National Park in 1976. With the integration of Hallon valley,the area of the National park went up to its present area of 940 sq.kms
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