NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE SANTUARY

1. National Park and
Wildlife Santuary

2. Jim Corbett National Park
Jim Corbett National Park is a national park in India located in the
Nainital district of Uttarakhand state. The first national park in
India, it was established in 1936 during the British Raj and named
Hailey National Park after William Malcolm Hailey, a governor of
the United Provinces in which it was then located. In 1956, nearly
a decade after India's independence, it was renamed Corbett
National Park after the hunter and naturalist Jim Corbett, who
had played a leading role in its establishment and had died the
year before. The park was the first to come under the Project
Tiger initiative

3. Sundarbans National Park is a large coastal
mangrove forest, shared by India and
Bangladesh. The area is home to the Royal
Bengal tiger, plus other endangered species
such as the estuarine crocodile and Ganges
River dolphin. Boats from Khulna city travel
south along the river to a quiet mangrove
beach at Kotka. Here, a watchtower offers
views of the forest and its birds and animals
Sundarbans National Park

4. Bandhavgarh National
Park
Bandhavgarh National Park is spread over the
Vindhya hills in Madhya Pradesh. The national park
consists of a core area of 105 sq km and a buffer
area of approximately 400 sq km. The topography of
the whole area varies between steep ridges,
undulating forest and open meadows. Bandhavgarh
National Park is known for the Royal Bengal Tigers.
The density of the tiger population at Bandhavgarh
is the highest known in India as well as in theworld

5. Sariska Wildlife Sanctuary
Sariska Tiger Reserve is a tiger reserve in Alwar district,
Rajasthan, India. It stretches over an area of 881 km2
(340 sq mi) comprising scrub-thorn arid forests, dry
deciduous forests, grasslands, and rocky hills. This area
was a hunting preserve of the Alwar state and was
declared a wildlife sanctuary in 1958. It was given the
status of a tiger reserve making it a part of India's
Project Tiger in 1978. The wildlife sanctuary was
declared a national park in 1982, with a total area of
about 273.8 km2 (105.7 sq mi).[1

6. Manas Wildlife Sanctuary
Manas National Park (ˈmʌnəs) is a national park,
Project Tiger reserve, and an elephant reserve in
Assam, India. Located in the Himalayan foothills,
it is borders the Royal Manas National Park[2] in
Bhutan. The park is known for its rare and
endangered endemic wildlife such as the Assam
roofed turtle, hispid hare, golden langur and
pygmy hog. Manas is also famous for its
population of the wild water buffalo.[

7. Periyar National Park
Periyar National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary (PNP) is
a protected area located in the districts of Idukki and
Pathanamthitta in Kerala, India. It is notable as an
elephant reserve and a tiger reserve. The protected
area encompasses 925 km2 (357 sq mi), of which 305
km2 (118 sq mi) of the core zone was declared as the
Periyar National Park in 1982. The park is a repository
of rare, endemic, and endangered flora and fauna
and forms the major watershed of two important
rivers of Kerala: the Periyar and the Pamba.

8. Thanks