BiospherereservesofIndia

Worldnetwork
TenoftheeighteenbiospherereservesareapartoftheWorldNetworkofBiosphereReserves,basedonthe
UNESCOManandtheBiosphere(MAB)Programmelist.[2][3][4][5]

Name States Year

NilgiriBiosphereReserve TamilNadu,Kerala,Karnataka 2000
GulfofMannarBiosphereReserve TamilNadu 2001
SundarbansBiosphereReserve WestBengal 2001
NandaDeviBiosphereReserve Uttarakhand 2004
NokrekBiosphereReserve Meghalaya 2009
PachmarhiBiosphereReserve MadhyaPradesh 2009
SimlipalBiosphereReserve Odisha 2009
GreatNicobarBiosphereReserve GreatNicobar 2013
2012[3]
AchanakmarAmarkantakBiosphereReserve Chhattisgarh,MadhyaPradesh

AgasthyamalaiBiosphereReserve KeralaandTamilNadu 2016[6]

 BiospherereservesofIndia(areawise)
Area
Year Name Location State Type Keyfauna
(km2)
PartofWaynad,
TamilNadu, Nilgiritahr,
NilgiriBiosphere Nagarhole,Bandipurand Western
1 1986 Keralaand liontailed 5520
Reserve Mudumalai,Nilambur, Ghats
Karnataka macaque
SilentValley
NandaDevi PartsofChamoli
SnowLeopard,
NationalPark& District,Pithoragarh Western
2 1988 Uttarakhand Himalayan 5860
Biosphere District&Bageshwar Himalayas
BlackBear
Reserve District
IndianpartofGulfof
Mannarextendingfrom
Rameswaramislandin
Dugongorsea
3 1989 GulfofMannar theNorthto TamilNadu Coasts 10500
cow
Kanyakumariinthe
SouthofTamilNaduand
SriLanka
East
4 1988 Nokrek InwestGaroHills Meghalaya Redpanda 820
Himalayas
PartofdeltaofGanges
Gangetic RoyalBengal
5 1989 Sundarbans andBrahmaputrariver WestBengal 9630
Delta tiger
system
PartofKokrajhar,
Bongaigaon,Barpeta, East Goldenlangur,
6 1989 Manas Assam 2837
Nalbari,Kamrupand Himalayas redpanda
DarrangDistricts
Gaur,royal
PartofMayurbhanj Deccan
7 1994 Simlipal Odisha Bengaltiger, 4374
district Peninsula
elephant
PartofSiangandDibang Arunachal Eastern MishmiTakin,
8 1998 DihangDibang 5112
Valley Pradesh Himalaya MuskDeer
Pachmarhi PartsofBetulDistrict,
Madhya Giantsquirrel,
9 1999 Biosphere HoshangabadDistrict SemiArid 4981.72
Pradesh flyingsquirrel
Reserve andChhindwaraDistrict
Fourhorned
antelope,
Indianwild
dog,Sarus
Achanakmar
Madhya crane,White
Amarkantak PartofAnnupur,Dindori Maikala
10 2005 Pradesh, rumped 3835
Biosphere andBilaspurdistricts Hills
Chhattisgarh vulture,
Reserve
Philautus
sanctisilvaticus
(Sacredgrove
bushfrog)
PartofKutch,Rajkot,
GreatRannof
11 2008 SurendranagarandPatan Gujarat Desert Indianwildass 12454
Kutch
Districts
 Area
Year Name Location State Type Keyfauna
(km2)
PinValleyNationalPark
and
Himachal Western
12 2009 ColdDesert surroundingsChandratal Snowleopard 7770
Pradesh Himalayas
andSarchu&Kibber
WildlifeSancturary
East Snowleopard,
13 2000 Khangchendzonga PartsofKangchenjunga Sikkim 2620
Himalayas redpanda
Neyyar,Pepparaand
Agasthyamalai
ShendurunyWildlife Kerala, Western Nilgiritahr,
14 2001 Biosphere 3500.08
Sanctuaryandtheir TamilNadu Ghats elephants
Reserve
adjoiningareas
GreatNicobar Southernmostislandsof Andaman
Saltwater
15 1989 Biosphere AndamanandNicobar andNicobar Islands 885
crocodile
Reserve Islands Islands
PartofDibrugarhand East
16 1997 DibruSaikhowa Assam Goldenlangur 765
Tinsukiadistricts Himalayas
SeshachalamHill
Rangescoveringpartsof Andhra Eastern
17 2010 SeshachalamHills SlenderLoris 4755
ChittoorandKadapa Pradesh Ghats
districts
Catchment Tiger,chital,
PartofPannaDistrict Madhya Areaof chinkara,
18 2011 Panna 2998.98
andChhatarpurDistrict Pradesh theKen sambharand
River slothbear

Potentialsites
FollowingisthelistofpotentialsitesforBiosphereReservesasselectedbyMinistryofForestsand
Environment:[7]The

Abujmarh,Chhattisgarh
AndamanandNicobar,NorthIslands
Chintapalli,VisakhapatnamAndhraPradesh
Kanha,MadhyaPradesh
Kovalam,Kerala
LakshadweepIslands,Lakshadweep
LittleRannofKutch,Gujarat
Phawngpui(BlueMountain),Mizoram
Namdapha,ArunachalPradesh
Singhbhum
TawangandWestKameng,ArunachalPradesh
TharDesert,Rajasthan
kdnationalpark,Rajasthan
chickunationalpark,Rajasthan