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.

Recently we heard some disturbing voices from responsible quarters that tigers should be eliminated if involved in man-animal conflicts....