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In total there are 18 biosphere reserves in India. ... Wildlife Institute of India webpage on India's Biosphere Reserves at archive.today (archived 9 May 2004)
National parks in India are International Union for Conservation of Nature ... TOTAL 32,87,263 108 44,402.95 ... UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve
Biosphere reserves of Madhya Pradesh [4] Year Name Location Type Key fauna Area (km 2) 1 1999: Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve: Parts of Betul District, Narmadapuram District and Chhindwara District: Semi-arid: Giant squirrel, flying squirrel: 4981.72 2 2005: Achanakmar-Amarkantak Biosphere Reserve
Additionally, there are 33 Elephant Reserves covering 80,778 km 2 (31,189 sq mi) under the Project Elephant, which may overlap with the wildlife sanctuaries and tiger reserves. [4] [5] [6] Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu was established in 1936 as India's first bird sanctuary.
1.5 India. 1.6 Indonesia. 1.7 Iran. 1.8 Japan. 1.9 Kazakhstan. 1.10 Kyrgyzstan. 1.11 Malaysia. 1.12 Maldives. ... Below is the list of biosphere reserves in Asia and ...
The Gujarat state of western India has four National Parks ... Kachchh Biosphere Reserve 12454.00 Kutch: Indian wild ass: 2008 Chhari Dhand Conservation Reserve: 227. ...
Map of the Biosphere Reserves, as of 2013. Note: the transboundary places are included among all the countries in which they are located, and therefore have been counted several times. As of 2022 total membership had reached 738 biosphere reserves in 134 countries (including 22 transboundary sites) occurring in all regions of the world. [1]
Tiger reserves consist of areas under national parks and wildlife sanctuaries. There are 53 tiger reserves in India. [1] As of January 2023, the protected areas of India cover 173,629.52 square kilometres (67,038.73 sq mi), roughly 5.28% of the total geographical area of the country. [2]