Sanjay National Park

Sanjay National Park is a national park in India. It is in the Sidhi district in Madhya Pradesh. It is  in size. It is a part of the Sanjay-Dubri Tiger Reserve. India made it a national park in 1981 and a tiger reserve in 2006.

Land

Sanjay National Park is made of the Sanjay National Park and the Dubri Wildlife Sanctuary. Both are in Sidhi District. Sanjay Dubri National Park was named after dubri village. The park is  including  core area and  extra area around it. It used to be in Madhya Pradesh with , but then Chhattisgarh was removed from it in 2000. A large part of this  area is now in Chhattisgarh, which was renamed Guru Ghasidas National Park. The Banas river, which joins the Son river, is the western end of the park. The land in the park is hilly.

Plants
This park has dry forest places. It has many kinds of plants in it. It has Sal, bamboo, and mixed forests. The  trees in the park are  sal, dhawa, tendu, harra,  mahua, kusum, shisham, khair, amla, and bair.

Animals
Many animals live in Sanjay National Park, including Bengal tiger, Indian leopard, chital, sambar deer, northern red muntjac, chinkara, wild boar, nilgai, Indian elephant, sloth bear, golden jackal, striped hyena, Indian crested porcupine, jungle cat, and monitor lizard. 
Tiger
In 1951, the king of Rewa, Martand Singh, caught a white tiger named Mohan in the forest of Sidhi district, which is now part of the Sanjay Dubri Tiger Reserve. In 2004, the Madhya Pradesh census found six tigers in Sanjay National Park. A 2018 report also said the park had six tigers. There were 41 tigers in July 2023.
Cheetah
The big place that has Sanjay National Park in it is where people last saw the Asiatic cheetah in India.

Guar
The gaur disappeared in 1997. In 2023, people brought 43 gaur from Kanha Tiger Reserve and Satpura Tiger Reserve to Sanjay National Park. 

Birds
Sanjay National Park has many birds, for example peacock, red jungle fowl, Asian koel, Indian roller and owls.

References

Other websites

Sanjay Dubri Tiger Reserve

Category:National parks
Category:India