Kanha Tiger Reserve is nestled in the Maikal range of Satpuras in Madhya Pradesh and is popular as one of the finest wildlife areas in the world. Kanha is spreaded across two districts - Mandla and Kalaghat with core area of 940 sq km and including buffer total area of 1945 sq km. It was declared a reserve forest in 1879 and revalued as a wildlife sanctuary in 1933. Its position was further upgraded to a national park in 1955. It is the first tiger reserve in India and no doubt one of the best managed parks in Asia.

Kanha’s landscape is dotted with dense groves of vegetation, hillocks and meadows. Of all these habitats, it is Kanha’s meadows that are its lifeline, as they sustain large numbers of herbivores like Chital, Sambar, Barasingha Nilgai and Gaur, which in turn support populations of predators and co-predators  like Tigers, Leopards, Jackals, Wild Dogs, Hyenas, Jungle Cats and Foxes. The park is primarily a moist Sal and moist mixed deciduous forest featuring Sal, Bamboo, Jamun, Tendu, Arjun and Lendia. It is home to over 1,000 species of flowering plants and about 300 species of birds.