Wildlife
Parks & Sanctuary In India
Panna Wildlife Conservation
Panna National Reserve was created in 1981. It was
declared a Project Tiger Reserve in 1994, the 22nd in the country and 5th in
the State. The National Reserve consists of areas form the former Gangau
Wildlife Sanctuary created in 1975. This sanctuary comprised of territorial
forests of the present North Panna Forest Division to which a portion of the
adjoining Chhatarpur Forest Division was added later. The reserved forests
of the Reserve in Panna district and some protected forests on Chhatarpur
district were the hunting preserves of the erstwhile rulers of Panna,
Chhatarpur and Bijawar princely states.