Panna Tiger Reserve gets UNESCO’s ‘Biosphere Reserve’ Status

Madhya Pradesh’s Panna National Park has been declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.

Madhya Pradesh’s Panna National Park has been declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.

About Panna National Park

The Panna 'National Park' was initially set up in 1981.
It received the status of a tiger reserve in the early 1990s when the "Project Tiger" was started and gradually the population of tigers started increasing.
The Panna Tiger Reserve witnessed a remarkable growth in tiger population last year. The number of tigers increased to 50, from zero which was just a decade ago.
The Tiger Reintroduction Project started in 2009 with five female and two male tigers from Bhandhavgarh and Kanha national parks.
The reserve covers an area of approximately 542.67 sq km. The thick deciduous forest of this reserve is a natural habitat for sloths, Indian wolf, Bear pangolins, leopards, gharial, Indian fox and a lot more. It's also home to stone carvings that date back to the Neolithic era.
Panna got the status of a Project Tiger Reserve 13 years after its formation in 1981. The All India Tiger Estimation reported that Madhya Pradesh has the highest number of tigers.
The state has a total of 526 tigers according to the 2018 census.

What is a Biosphere Reserve?

According to the United Nations ( UN), a biosphere reserve is where the international agency tries to reconcile the differences between human activity and the preservation of biodiversity.
Every year some are given the status of Biosphere reserves by UNESCO, while others are removed.

Every year UNESCO appoints new biosphere reserves and removes others to promote the conservation of biodiversity, resolve the man-animal conflict at that site and allow sustainable use of natural resources.
This addition to the UNESCO list will help in exploring new measures towards the conservation of wildlife.