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Pench Tiger Reserve

Pench Tiger Reserve

Central India once presinting and almost contiguous realn for tiger's, and even now, dspite extensive deforest station and human satalement, seven of India's 27 tigers reserves are located here. Maharastra and Madhapradesh share the page tiger reserve in the southern, loer riches of the Satpura hills less than 90 km North of Nagpur city. In madhapradesh, the reserve is nearly 758 sq-km, while the Maharastra area is 257 sq-km. All though a contiguous toger habitat, and together declered as a countrie's 19 tiger reserve in 1992, the too areas are administered severalty.

The reserve gets is name from the Pench River. Characterized by a low, hilly landscape covered with mixed-deciduous forest the region has sonic gold teak plantations and ragingly marks the northern limit of the tree. Bamboos stand at to the charm of the setting. Although there are several perennial pools many rivulets dry up in summer. Together with the many smaller strums, thay form a perfect environment for the tigers.
Towards the sourthern margin of Madhya Pradesh's Pench tiger reserve, the reserve created by the Totladoh hidroelectric project covers, at maximum capacity, well over 65 sq-km of rich natural habited. How ever, over time the water - body has became a majour draw for wildlife, including the water birds, seen in profusion during Winter. The region has more than 200 hundred spacies of birds.
In Pench Cheetal, Sambhar, Nilgai are commonly seen grazing on the open sites on road sides and banks of river and reservoir. Jackls can be seen in serch of food any where in the park. Packs up to 15 of wild dog can be seen near Chhedia, Jamtara, Bodanala and Poiorthadi arise of the Reserved. Herds of gaur can be spotted near streams and bamboo paches commonly in summer months. Sloth bear occupy hilly, rocky out crops and fiber mahul bel infested forest. Langoors are very common in Pench, where as the Rhesus monkeys may be seen occasionally on the fringes. Commonly seen are Peafowl, red jungle fowl, Crow pheasant, Crimson breasted barbet, Redvanted bulbul, Racket tailed drongo, Magpie Robin and lesser whistling teal.
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  • Flora in Pench...

It is best with forests spread in all the direction. As per the physiognomy, the forest type is southern tropical dry deciduous teak and southern tropical mixed beciduous forest with other species of shrubs, trees and climbers. Teak and its associated moyan, mahua, mokha, skiras, tandu, biza, achar, garai, aonla, ghont, baranga, amaltas, kihamali, khair, palas. Bamboo occuras sparcely restricted to some valley. Fauna in Pench.
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  • Fauna in Pench...

The Pench National Park is very rich in fauna and number of endangered spacies have made it there habited. There are around 55 tigers under this umbrella of the park. 39 species of mammals, 13 spacies of reptiles, 3 spacies of amphibians and over 210 veritys of birds have already being listed.

The Pench National Park is open to the visitors from 1st November to 30th June each year and closed during the rainy seasons (July to September).

 
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