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National Parks/Wildlife Sanctuaries in news :

• Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh, is expecting to get 13 African cheetahs, in what is being described as the world’s largest intercontinental animal translocation. Located in the Chambal region of Madhya Pradesh, the Kuno-Palpur National Park is spread over an area of 750 square kilometres. It currently has leopards, jackals, spotted deer, sambhar, neelgai, chinkara, wild boar and the four-horned antelope, a prey base ideal for felids. The sanctuary was also chosen for the lion reintroduction project in 2013.  Raimona in Kokrajhar district has become Assam’s sixth national park.
• The fi ve national parks that existed prior to the 422 sq. km Raimona are Kaziranga, Manas, Nameri, Orang and Dibru-Saikhowa. The Raimona National Park is within the Bodoland Territorial Region. The area of the park includes the northern part of the noti fi ed Ripu Reserve Forest (508.62 sq. km), which forms the western-most buffer to the Manas National Park that straddles the IndiaBhutan border. The Pekua River defi nes Raimona’s southern boundary. Raimona also shares contiguous forest patches of the Phipsoo Wildlife Sanctuary and the Jigme Singye Wangchuk National Park in Bhutan.