Panna
National Reserve was created in 1981. It was declared a Project Tiger Reserve
in 1994, the 22nd in the country and 5th in the State. The National Reserve consists of areas form the former Gangau Wildlife Sanctuary created in 1975.
This sanctuary comprised of territorial forests of the present North Panna Forest Division to which a portion of the adjoining Chhatarpur Forest Division was added later.
The reserved forests of the Reserve in Panna district and some protected forests on Chhatarpur district were the hunting preserves of the erstwhile rulers of Panna, Chhatarpur and Bijawar princely states.
