7 Wildlife Sanctuaries to Explore in Uttar Pradesh

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Uttar Pradesh

With roughly 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populous state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world.

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Wildlife Sanctuaries to Explore in Uttar Pradesh

Chandra Prabha Wildlife Sanctuary

The Chandra Prabha Wildlife Sanctuary, also known as Chandraprabha, is situated in Chandauli district of Uttar Pradesh state in central India. It is well endowed with beautiful picnic spots, dense forests, and scenic waterfalls like Rajdari and Devdari that attract tourists every year to its vicinity. Chandra Prabha Wildlife Sanctuary is situated about 70 kilometres from the historic city of Varanasi.

Dudhwa National Park

The Dudhwa National Park is a national park in the Terai belt of marshy grasslands of northern Uttar Pradesh, India, and covers an area of 490.3 km2 with a buffer zone of 190 km2. It is part of the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve covering the areas of Kheri and Lakhimpur districts. It is located on the Indo-Nepal border in the Lakhimpur Kheri District,

Etawah Safari Park

Etawah safari park is a proposed drive-through safari park in Etawah and one of the biggest in Asia with a perimeter of 8km. It is situated at 2-hour driving distances from the city of the Taj Mahal, Agra and about 3-hour driving distances from state capital Lucknow.

Hastinapur Wildlife Sanctuary

Hastinapur Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected area in the Gangetic plains of Uttar Pradesh which lies on the western bank of the Ganges River having a collection of Large variety of Flora and Fauna. There is also a large variety of wildlife species also.

Kanpur Zoological Park

Kanpur Zoo is a 76.56-hectare zoo in Kanpur, a large city in Northern India. It is the largest open green space in Kanpur and the largest zoological park in North India. Originally a natural habitat for fauna, it is one of the few zoos in India created in a natural forest. The animals inhabited in the Zoological Park have been put in open and moated enclosures. The moated enclosures give the animal ample space for movement and help in expressing their biological and physiological expressions

Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary

The Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected area in the Upper Gangetic plain in Uttar Pradesh,it was brought under the purview of the ‘Project Tiger’, and together with the Kishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary and the Dudhwa National Park it forms the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve. It was established in 1975. The Katerniaghat Forest provides strategic connectivity between tiger habitats of Dudhwa and Kishanpur in India and the Bardia National Park in Nepal.

Pilibhit Tiger Reserve

Pilibhit Tiger Reserve is located in Pilibhit district, Lakhimpur Kheri District and Bahraich District of Uttar Pradesh state in India. It lies along the India-Nepal border in the foothills of the Himalayas and the plains of the ‘terai’ in Uttar Pradesh. It is one of India's 50 Project Tiger Tiger reserves. Pilibhit is one of the few well forested districts in Uttar Pradesh.

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