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Panna Biosphere Reserve
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- UNESCO allots India’s Panna Tiger Reserve the ‘Biosphere Reserve’ status.
- Panna is now UNESCO’s 12th Biosphere reserve in India.
- It brought its tiger population back from zero to 54 in ten years.
- In 2009, the entire tiger population had been eliminated by poaching.
- Two female tigers were relocated there from Bandhavgarh National Park and Kanha National Park in March 2009.
- Panna was designated a biosphere reserve by India in 2011.
- It is the third in Madhya Pradesh after Pachmarhi and Amarkantak.
Recent issue
- The Government of India along with Government of Madhya Pradesh and Government of Uttar Pradesh have planned to link the Ken River with Betwa River along this reserve.
- This is the country’s first river interlinking project.
- This involves construction of 283 km long Daudhan Dam.
- It provides water access to the drought prone region of Bundelkhand.
- Panna is characterized by forests and marshy vegetation.
- It spans 576 kilo meters in Panna and Chhatarpur districts of Madhya Pradesh
- It is a critical tiger habitat area and hosts the Panna Tiger Reserve.
- It also hosts the UNESCO World Heritage site of the Khajuraho Group of Monuments.
- It was declared in 1993 as the twenty second Tiger reserve of India and the fifth in Madhya Pradesh.
- 12 of the 18 biosphere reserves in India are a part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves.
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