Panna National Park
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IUCN category II (national park)
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| Location | Panna and Chhatarpur districts, Madhya Pradesh, India |
| Nearest city | Panna, Khajuraho (25 km (16 mi)) |
| Coordinates | 24°43′49.6″N 80°0′38.8″E / 24.730444°N 80.010778°E |
| Area | 542.67 km2 (209.53 sq mi) |
| Established | 1981 |
| Visitors | 22,563 (in 2009) |
| Governing body | Government of India, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Project Tiger, Madhya Pradesh |
Panna National Park is a national park located in Panna and Chhatarpur districts of Madhya Pradesh in India. It has an area of 542.67 km2 (209.53 sq mi). It was declared in 1994 as the twenty second Tiger reserve of India and the fifth in Madhya Pradesh, Panna was given the Award of Excellence in 2007 as the best maintained national park of India by the Ministry of Tourism of India. It is notable that by 2009, the entire tiger population had been eliminated by poaching with the collusion of forest department officials.
Panna National Park and the surrounding territorial forest area of North and South Panna forest division is the only large chunk of wildlife habitat remaining in North Madhya Pradesh in the otherwise fragmented forest landscape of the region.
The National Park is situated at a point where the continuity of the Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests belt, which starts from Cape Comorin in South India, is broken and beyond this the Upper Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests of the great Indo-Gangetic Plain begins. This area is the northernmost tip of the natural teak forests and the easternmost tip of the natural 'Kardhai' Anogeissus pendula forests.
The forests of Panna National Park along with Ken Gharial Wildlife Sanctuary and adjoining territorial divisions form a significant part of the catchment area of the 406 km (252 mi) Ken River which runs northeast for about 72 km (45 mi) through the park.
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