This 940 km2 park, surrounded by a 1,005 km2 buffer zone, forms a splendid ensemble of forests and pastures home to a wide variety of wildlife: leopards, tigers, lippus bears, gaurs (Indian bison), chitals (axis deer), sambars (deer), the rare barasingha (swamp deer), muntjacs (Reeves'muntjac ) and no fewer than 230 types of bird, not to mention langurs, the grey monkeys recognizable by the "mask" they wear on their faces. Kanha is also famous for its forest of sals, long, hard-wooded trees. British settlers, eager to develop the railroad to increase their control over the territory by facilitating the movement of military garrisons, set out in search of the ideal wood for making shingles. After a meticulous search, they settled on the sal tree, and placed the Kanha jungle in a protected zone to secure their stock, since cultivation of the tree was almost impossible. This long-standing protection indirectly saved the local fauna. Kanha became a national park in 1973 under the impetus of Indira Gandhi and Project Tiger.Kanha National Park is an enchanting, remarkably well-preserved place, offering a bucolic stopover in the heart of rural, tribal India. There are two entry points into the park, at Mukki in the south and Kathiya in the west, both of which are home to numerous resorts and lodges to welcome tourists. Whichever tiger national park you visit, you'll always find someone to tell you that Rudyard Kipling drew inspiration from this place for his Jungle Book . Kanha is no exception to this legend, but in reality, although Kipling was born in Bombay and later returned there, he seems to have traveled very little within the country. This book is therefore purely the fruit of his imagination and his reading of local gazettes.

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