India gets its 54th Tiger Reserve : Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve in Sagar district of Madhya Pradesh
Until now, MP was home to six tiger reserves – Kanha, Bandhavgarh, Satpura, Pench, Panna and Sanjay-Dubri.
MP retained the "tiger state" status in the 2022 census with the number of big cats in the state rising to 785 from 526 in 2018.
The new tiger reserve, spread across Sagar, Damoh and Narsinghpur districts.