National Parks in India
The
first National Park in India was set up in 1935 in the foot hills of the Himalayas
in Uttar Pradesh and was known as Hailey National Park. It later came to be known as
Corbett National Park, after
the famed wildlife lover Jim Corbett and is now under . In 1970, there were only five
National Parks in total, namely Kanha, Bandavgarh, Shivpuri, Taroba and Corbett.
But now more and more areas within an wildlife sanctuary or not, were
earmarked as National Parks and about 103 of them exist in India as per
National Wildlife database 2015. Roughly about 40,500 sq. km constitute the
National parks.
