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Question: Which National park is called Mougli's land in India?...

Which National park is called Mougli's land in India?

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Pench National Park also called Tiger Reserve is one of the premier tiger reserves of our country India. The national park is also known as Mougli's land. It is the first one to straddle across two states of India - Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

Complete answer:
Generally the term Pench is mostly used to the tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh (M.P). The part of the reserve that is situated in Madhya Pradesh is nestled in the southern slopes of the Satpura range of Central the country.

Madhya Pradesh forest department includes a proposal to fell over 550 trees to make a path for a tiger safari in its Mowgli is a fictional character as well as protagonist in English writer Rudyard Kipling's 'The Jungle Book'.

The M.P. forest department has started working on a great project to create tiger safari in their national park straddling Seoni as well as Chhindwara districts of the state. It has been proposed to erect a state boundary wall which would require pruning of shrubs along with the falling of 556 trees, according to an order issued by Pench national park's authorities.
There are six tiger reserves in Madhya Pradesh—
Kanha,
Bandhavgarh,
Panna,
Bori-Satpura,
Sanjay-Dubri as well as
Pench which has about 257 tigers.
While the tiger population in India was estimated at 1,706 in the year 2010, it had increased to 2,226 in the year 2014. Madhya Pradesh ranks third-after Karnataka along with Uttarakhand in tiger population in our country India.

Note: The park has 299 sq kms core area of Indira Priyadarshini Pench national park along with the Mowgli Pench Sanctuary. The remaining 464 sq km is the buffer area.