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Wildlife Board Approves Durgavati Tiger Reserve as New Tiger Reserve

The Durgavati Tiger Reserve is a 2,339 square kilometers new tiger reserve that will spread across Narsinghpur, Damoh, and Sagar districts. Madhya Pradesh Wildlife Board has approved the making of a new tiger reserve of Panna Tiger Reserve (PTP), one-fourth of which will get submerged due to the Linkin of the Ken-Betwa rivers.

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The new tiger reserve will be known as Durgavati Tiger Reserve and it will spread across Narsinghpur, Damoh, and Sagar districts.
A green corridor linking PTR with Durgavati will be developed for the natural movement of the tiger to the new reserve.
The Madhya Pradesh Wildlife Board was chaired by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
He approved a notify 1,414 sq km area as the core area and 925 sq km as a buffer in the new tiger reserve.
The new tiger reserves are a part of a wildlife management plan for Panna for the Ken-Betwa rivers linking project.
The two state governments with the center are implementing a ₹44,605 crore river-linking project to end the water crisis in the Bundelkhand region.