Barasingha – The Jewel of Kanha National Park

Kanha National Park has a lot of amazing and exciting features that can definitely captivate the visitors across the corners and different kinds of wildlife attractions are to be seen to make the environment very blissful. This arena is known to have tropical central highlands to make it an ideal habitat for the wild animals.

The list of wildlife species is truly endless when exploring them during Kanha Tiger safari. It truly creates the overall aroma of the national environment a lot amazing. Kanha National Park hoses several wild animals or mammals, such as swamp deer, or Barasingha, Indian wild dog, and the most popular Tiger.

This park is well known as “Tiger Reserve” because of its large amount of tiger population in the land of Kanha. Along with that, Barasingha is found in large numbers here and it is well known as the “Jewel of Kanha National Park”.

Traditionally called as Dolhorina or Swamp Deer, Barasingha is the well known species native to Kanha Tiger reserve. This species is well regarded as the sub-Himalayan Terai in North India and the hard-ground species is the exclusive graminivorous which relies totally on the grasslands and grasses and it is based on the aquatic plants.  It is one of the most peace-loving species which interacts with Chital easily. They are found dipping its stifle in the water to feed water plants. 

Poaching, hunting and diversion of the long grassland in Central India for agriculture have been the major cause of depletion and the reserve official have taken some of the major steps to conserve the population. With the rewarding efforts of conservation by the park authorities, the national park focuses widely on the swamp deer’s preservation that were affected by poaching of their horns and skin. Around 500 Barasinghas were introduced to different locations in this national park.