Banke National Park

""Banke National Park (BNP) is located in the Mid-Western Region, Nepal and was established in May 2010 as Nepal’s tenth national park, covering an area of 894 square kilometers with most parts falling on the Churia range. The park is surrounded by a buffer zone of 344 km2 in the districts of Banke, Salyan and Dang.

Together with the neighboring Bardia National Park, the coherent protected area of 1,518 km2 represents the Tiger Conservation Unit (TCU) Bardia-Banke, which is now the biggest tiger conservation area in all of Asia. According to experts, the newly declared national park area bears good potential for tiger habitat.  Since most parts of BNP fall on the Churia range bearing a fragile ecosystem the government had adopted a policy to focus on conserving the Churia range as well.

The initial plan was to merge the proposed area with the existing Bardia National Park, but the Government later came up with a proposal to establish it as a separate national park in view of the potential difficulty in handling such a large park.

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