Indravati, a national park from 1981 and a tiger reserve from 1983, holds a last wild buffalo population

Background

Indravati National Park lies in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh and takes its name from the Indravati river, which forms the park's northern boundary with Maharashtra. The district administration gives its total area as approximately 2799.08 km2. It attained the status of a national park in 1981 and became a tiger reserve in 1983 under Project Tiger. The park is recorded as home to one of the last populations of the rare wild buffalo, a focus of conservation in the State.