Panna Tiger Reserve Gets Into ‘World Network Of Biosphere Reserves’

• 02 Nov 2020

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) has included Panna Tiger Reserve in its ‘World Network of Biosphere Reserves’ — the third in Madhya Pradesh after Pachmarhi and Amarkantak.

• UNESCO has allotted the reserve as Biosphere Reserve status after it brought the tiger population back from zero to 54 within ten years. About ten years back, tigers were vanished from the reserve and then forest department re-introduced the big cats in its ambitious plan.
• Other Indian biosphere reserves that are a part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves, based on the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme list are: