Structure of Bandhavgarh National Park

The four different sections of the Bandhavgarh National Park can be named as Tala, Khitauli, Magdhi and Panpatta. Among these areas, Tala has been named as the richest in lieu of the biodiversity that majorly comprises of tigers. The total area covered by these four different sections is summed up to 694 sq. km. The extra area that is related to the forest division falls under Umaria and Katni. The national park was dated back to year 1968 but was majorly considered Tala region for a specific time. The schemes that are currently applicable to the park were designed in the year 1993.

Considering the biogeographic categories the national park is located in the Zone-6A of Deccan Peninsula of Central Highlands. The grouping of the Champion & Seth has been mentioned in the Northern India’s moist deciduous forests. The valley majorly has a Sal forest vegetation on upper zones while on the lower slopes is the mixed deciduous forest in the hills and in hotter zones located in the southern and western region of the park.

The broad valleys that are situated near the streams are marked by the linear and long grasslands that are majorly covered by the Sal forests. The mixed vegetation on the hills comprises of Sal (majorly shorea rubusta), Salai, Saja and Dhobin etc. along with the dense bamboo copses found on many areas. With combination of all these, the national park of Bandhavgarh has the rich biodiversity.

Since the tigers are at the top of food chain, it has 37 different varied varieties of 37 mammals. As per the park authorities, the park has 250 different species of birds, butterflies of 80 different types and few types of reptiles. As per many of the visitors, the park has 350 different species of the birds of whom the photographs are available. Since the park iss calm and lush, it attracts pairs of Sarus Cranes for breeding during the monsoon.

The major attraction of the park is spotting the tigers (panther tigris tigris). The park comprises of higher bulk of tigers within its vicinity. The park area of 105 sq. km has total pf 22 number of tigers that means one tiger in each 4.77 sq. km as per the records recorded in 2001. As per the current records recorded in 2012, the total numbers of tigers spotted were 44 to 49. The statement related to the national parks is said to be if one spots the tiger in any of the national park, then he or she must consider himself lucky but if one doesn’t spot a tiger in the Bandhavgarh national park, then he or she must be consider himself unlucky. In the current times, it has become rare to spot a tiger by the tourists of the national park. Only one out of ten tourists could spot a tiger during current times.

The other species of the park are gaur, Indian bison, sambar, barking deer, Nilgai are spotted in the open areas of the national park.