National Parks
National parks in India are IUCN category II protected areas. India's first national park was established in 1936 as Hailey National Park, now known as Jim Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand.
- According to the Indian Ministry of Environment & Forests, a national park is "an area, whether within a sanctuary or not, [that] can be notified by the state government to be constituted as a National Park, by reason of its ecological, faunal, floral, geomorphological, or zoological association or importance, needed to for the purpose of protecting and propagating or developing wildlife therein or its environment."
- No human activity is permitted inside the ....
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