The famous Kanha tiger reserve carries out a wide range of biodiversity conservation practices. These practices over the past several decades have revived this great ecosystem, with a variety of predator and prey species. Some of these are endangered and iconic. These biodiversity conservation practices include stringent protection of wildlife and their habitats, habitat improvement, monitoring of vegetation and wildlife, fire management, and confidence building measures for

Among the first nine tiger reserves, Kanha is a great conservation landscape. The PA supports a diverse floral and faunal species, some of them endangered and iconic like the barasingha and tiger. Managed under a core-buffer strategy, the Kanha management carries out a number of conservation practices to achieve stated goals and objectives of management. Behind this tremendous success is a dedicated team of officers and field staff.

Pench tiger reserve in MP is one of the finest protected areas in the country. I was posted there around 40 years back. The article contains my wonderful memories of those years.