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First elephant colony – Madhya Pradesh
January 2 , 2020
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- For the first time, Bandhavgarh Reserve forest located in Madhya Pradesh (MP), has a colony of elephants which migrated from Chhattisgarh in November 2018 and has stayed on.
- Bandhavgarh Reserve forest resides on the extreme north-eastern border of Madhya Pradesh and the northern edges of the Satpuras mountain ranges.
- In 1968, Bandhavgarh was notified as a national park and in 1993 was declared a tiger reserve - under the Project Tiger Network at the neighbouring Panpatha Sanctuary.
- Its mention can be found in the ancient books of the ‘Narad Pancharatra’ and the ‘Shiv Purana’ that this place is being associated with Ramayana.
- Till now there are no elephants in Madhya Pradesh and there is no known reason for this disappearance from India’s central region, including MP and until a few years ago Chhattisgarh.
- Madhya Pradesh is known as Tiger State.
- In the 2019 Tiger census, it recorded the greatest number of estimated tigers at 526.
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