WILDLIFE
Tiger, Panther, Gaur, Chital, Sambar, Nilgai, Barasingha, Wild Boar, Red Jungle Fowl, Wild Dog, Black Buck, Barking Deer, Langur and Mouse Deer

One of the finest park is renowned for the conservation of 22 species of mammals in the central parkland and the adjoining plateaus. Kanha's sal and bamboo forests, rolling grasslands and meandering streams stretch over 940 sq km in dramatic natural splendour which form the core of the Kanha Tiger Reserve created in 1974 under Project Tiger. The park is the only habitat of the rare hardground Barasingha [ Cervus Duvaceli Branderi ].