National Parks

The three notified parks are Ranthambhore, Keoladeo and Mukundra Hills. Desert National Park, Sariska National Park and Kumbhalgarh National Park are still carried in the department's under-process category.

It adds up from Ranthambhore at 282.03 sq km, Mukundra Hills at 199.55 sq km and Keoladeo at 28.73 sq km. The state's tiger reserves together cover a far larger 5,980.89 sq km.

The park covers 282.03 sq km and was notified on 1 November 1980. The tiger reserve built around it is much larger and spreads across four districts of eastern Rajasthan.

The park covers 28.73 sq km and is one of Rajasthan's three notified national parks. Band Baretha Sanctuary also falls within the same district.

Mukundra Hills National Park covers 199.55 sq km. The Mukundara Hills Tiger Reserve built around it is far larger and reaches into Kota, Bundi, Jhalawar and Chittorgarh.

The Forest Department's record dates the notification to 1 November 1980. The surrounding landscape later grew into a tiger reserve of 1,530.23 sq km.

The park was declared under notification number F3(5)(9)/8/72. Covering 28.73 sq km in Bharatpur district, it is one of the state's three notified national parks.

Notification F11(56)Van/2011/Part is dated 9 January 2012. The Mukundara Hills Tiger Reserve was created around the same landscape later, which is why the two years are often mixed up.

Keoladeo is listed as a natural World Heritage property. It is also a Ramsar wetland and a major staging ground for Palaearctic migratory waterfowl arriving each winter.

Its World Heritage reference number is 340 and it was listed under the natural criteria. The property is managed by the Rajasthan Forest Department.

World Heritage records carry the earlier name. The wetland is counted among the world's most important bird breeding and feeding sites.

About 120 waterfowl species gather here in winter. Siberian crane numbers fell steadily after inscription and the birds stopped appearing by the mid-1990s.

The wetland is a national park declared under the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 and is additionally protected under the Ramsar Convention. Its recorded area is 2,873 hectares.

The park sits in eastern Rajasthan on the edge of the Gangetic plains, about two kilometres south-east of Bharatpur town.

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change issued it. The zone was extended up to 1.5 km on the southern side to bring the upstream catchment under protection.

The Forest Department's list records the area at 3,162 sq km. The same tract also appears in the department's under-process category as Desert National Park.

The proposed park is recorded at 462.05 sq km. Kumbhalgarh Sanctuary spreads across the same three districts and covers 610.53 sq km.

The proposed park is recorded at about 400.15 sq km, while the Sariska Tiger Reserve around it extends beyond Alwar into Jaipur Rural and Kotputli-Behror.

The tiger reserve totals 1,530.23 sq km, while Ranthambhore National Park inside it covers only 282.03 sq km and lies wholly within Sawai Madhopur district.

The list carries it as Desert National Park Sanctuary under the sanctuary category, while a national park of the same name is held separately in the under-process category.