India is home to several well known large mammals including the Asian Elephant, Bengal Tiger, Asiatic Lion, Leopard and Indian Rhinoceros.
There are 92 existing national parks in India covering an area of 38,569.66 km 2, which is 1.17% of the geographical area of the country (National Wildlife Database, July 2004). In addition to the above 74 national parks covering an area of 16,630.08 km 2 are proposed in the Protected Area Network Report (Rodgers et al. 2002). The network of parks will go up 166 after full implementation of the above report. Maximum number of parks exist in size class less 100-500 km 2 and there are 7 parks, having more than 5,000 km 2.
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