Template:Infobox Protected area Madhav National Park is a national park in Shivpuri District of Gwalior division in northwest Madhya Pradesh, India. It was established in 1956 with Template:Cvt as Shivpuri National Park. In 1958, it was renamed Madhav National Park after Madho Rao Scindia and was finalized the following year.[1] Sakhya Sagar, a reservoir within the park, has been designated as a Ramsar site in 2022.[2]
Two national highways pass through the park, the Gwalior to Bombay former National Highway 3 and the Jhansi to Shivpuri National Highway 27.[1]
History
The dense forests of Sipri later came to be known as Shivpuri doubled up as hunting grounds for Mughal emperors since the 16th century. Since then Mughal princes, Rajputana rulers, Gwalior royals and British dignitaries travelled to this area for hunting sprees. Therefore it came to be known as royal hunting park or Majestic Park due to high movement of Kings and high ranking british officials including British Monarch and Viceroys.[3]
George Castle was built in 1911 at an elevation of Template:Cvt. It was built for George V who had intended to stay there during his visit to India.[4]
After the independence of India, the area suffered degradation.[1] Agriculture and mining encroached on the former hunting grounds. Although the park was noticed in 1956, at 167 km2, as Shivpuri National Park and became the renamed Madhav National Park in 1959, degradation continued.[1][5] The last of the resident wild tigers were seen in Madhav National Park in the late 1970s. In 1982, a plan to add a new part of the park parallel to the Chambal River was proposed. This expansion area included a corridor joining it to the original Template:Cvt.[1]
In the 1990s, there was little effort to improve the conditions in the park. Illegal mining and questionable mining permits led to significant degradation in the park, so that in the 1990s conservationists took the matter to the Supreme Court of India and by 1998 received an injunction terminating mining in the area.[6]
On 1 December 2024, the technical committee of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) proposed to recognize Madhav National Park as a Tiger Reserve which will span Template:Cvt featuring a core area of Template:Cvt and a buffer area of Template:Cvt. Furthermore, the committee has also approved the release of one tiger and one tigress into the park.[7]
Geography
There are several small ponds in this national park, but the largest body of water is Sankhya Sagar, a reservoir,[8] constructed for Madho Rao Scindia when it was still his hunting grounds.[1] He also had constructed a second smaller reservoir by damming Manihar River, Madhav Sagar, known as Madhav Lake.[1] A third reservoir was not included in the park.[1]
Located in the ecoregion of Khathiar-Gir dry deciduous forests,[9] this national park has a varied terrain of forested hills and flat grasslands around the reservoir and is thus rich in biodiversity. The average rainfall is 816 mm.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 National Parks of Madhya Pradesh: State of Bio Diversity and Human Infringement{{#if:Tiwari|, Tiwari}. APH Publishing(1998). ISBN 978-81-7024-950-4
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedRSIS - ↑ Once A Royal Ground For Mughals, This National Park Is Now India's 58th Tiger Reserve, Bhagat, M.. Times now(2025). Retrieved 12 March 2025.
- ↑ The charms of Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh. The Times of India(2018).
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Biomass estimation using satellite remote sensing data—An investigation on possible approaches for natural forest. Journal of Biosciences({Template:Year).
- ↑ District Tourism Master Plan for Shivpuri Draft Report, Shrivastava, P. P.. Design and Planning Consultants (DPC)(2017).
- ↑ Not Madhav National Park, but Rathapani forest notified as eighth tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh. Mid-day. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
- ↑ Google maps
- ↑ Template:WWF ecoregion
External links
Template:National Parks of India Template:Ramsar sites in India