There are 18 Biosphere Reserves in India.

 [1] (categories roughly correspondingly to IUCN Category V Protected areas) to

protect larger areas of natural habitat than a typical national park or animal sanctuary, and that often include one or more
national parks or reserves, along with buffer zones that are open to some economic uses. Protection is granted not only to
the flora and fauna of the protected region, but also to the human communities who inhabit these regions, and their ways of
life.Total there are 18 biosphere reserves in india

Contents

 1World network
 2List of biosphere reserves in India
 3Key faunas
 4Potential sites
 5See also
 6References
 7External links

World network[edit]
Twelve of the eighteen biosphere reserves are a part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves, based on
the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme list.[1][2][3]

# Name States/ UT Year

1 Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka 2000

2 Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve Tamil Nadu 2001

3 Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve West Bengal 2001

4 Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve Uttarakhand 2004

5 Nokrek Biosphere Reserve Meghalaya 2009

6 Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve Madhya Pradesh 2009

7 Simlipal Biosphere Reserve Odisha 2009

8 Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve Andaman & Nicobar Islands 2013

# Name States/ UT Year

9 Achanakmar-Amarkantak Biosphere Reserve Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh 2012[2]

10 Agasthyamalai Biosphere Reserve Kerala and Tamil Nadu 2016[4]

11 Khangchendzonga National Park Sikkim 2018[5]

12 Panna Biosphere Reserve Madhya Pradesh 2020[6]

List of biosphere reserves in India[edit]

Biosphere reserves of India[7]

Area
Ye Key
Name Location State Type (km2
ar fauna
)

Nilgiri
Nilgiri Part Tamil
198 Western tahr, tiger, li
1 Biosphere of Waynad, Nagarhole, Bandipur and M Nadu, Kerala and  5520
6 Ghats on-tailed
Reserve udumalai, Nilambur, Silent Valley Karnataka
macaque

Snow
Nanda Devi
198 Parts of Chamoli District, Pithoragarh Western Hi leopard, Hi
2 Biosphere Uttarakhand 5860
8 District & Bageshwar District malayas malayan
Reserve
black bear

Indian part of Gulf of Mannar extending

198 Gulf of from Rameswaram island in the north
3 Tamil Nadu Coasts Dugong 10500
9 Mannar to Kanyakumari in the south of Tamil
Nadu and Sri Lanka

198
4 Nokrek In West Garo Hills Meghalaya Eastern hills Red panda 820.00 
8

Part of delta
198 Sundarban Gangetic Royal
5 of Ganges and Brahmaputra river West Bengal 9630
9 s Delta Bengal tiger
system
 Biosphere reserves of India[7]

Area
Ye Key
Name Location State Type (km2
ar fauna
)

Asiatic
elephant,
tiger, Assa
Part m roofed
198 Eastern
6 Manas of Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon, Barpeta, Nal Assam turtle, hispid 2837
9 Hills
bari, Kamrup and Darrang Districts hare, golde
n
langur, pyg
my hog

Gaur, royal
199 Deccan Bengal
7 Simlipal Part of Mayurbhanj district Odisha 4374
4 Peninsula tiger, Asian
elephant

Mishmi
199 Dihang- Arunachal Eastern
8 Part of Siang and Dibang Valley takin, musk 5112
8 Dibang Pradesh Himalaya
deer

Pachmarhi Giant
199 Parts of Betul District, Hoshangabad 4981.7
9 Biosphere Madhya Pradesh Semi-Arid squirrel, flyi
9 District and Chhindwara District 2
Reserve ng squirrel

Four-
horned
antelope, In
Achanakma
dian wild
r- Part Madhya
1 200 Maikala dog, sarus
Amarkanta of Annupur, Dindori and Bilaspur district Pradesh, 3835
0 5 Hills crane, white
k Biosphere s Chhattisgarh
-rumped
Reserve
vulture, sacr
ed grove
bush frog

Part
1 200 Great Rann of Kutch, Morbi, Surendranagar and Indian wild
Gujarat Desert 12454
1 8 of Kutch Patan districts; the largest biosphere ass
reserve in India.

1 200 Cold Desert Pin Valley National Park and Himachal Western Hi Snow 7770
2 9 surroundings; Chandratal and Sarchu & Pradesh malayas leopard
 Biosphere reserves of India[7]

Area
Ye Key
Name Location State Type (km2
ar fauna
)

Kibber Wildlife Sanctuary

Khangchen
Snow
1 200 dzonga East
Parts of Kangchenjunga Sikkim leopard, red 2620
3 0 National Himalayas
panda
Park

Agasthyam
Neyyar, Peppara and Shenduruny Nilgiri
1 200 alai Kerala, Tamil Western 3500.0
Wildlife Sanctuary and their adjoining tahr, Asian
4 1 Biosphere Nadu Ghats 8
areas elephant
Reserve

Great
1 198 Nicobar Southernmost of the Andaman and Andaman and Saltwater
Islands 885
5 9 Biosphere Nicobar Islands Nicobar Islands crocodile
Reserve

White-
winged
wood
duck, water
1 199 Dibru- Eastern
Part of Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts Assam buffalo, blac 765
6 7 Saikhowa Hills
k-breasted
parrotbill,
tiger, cappe
d langur

1 201 Seshachala Seshachalam Hill Ranges covering Eastern Slender 4755.9

Andhra Pradesh
7 0 m Hills parts of Chittoor and Kadapa districts Hills loris 97[8]

Bengal
tiger,
Moist Chinkara,
1 201 Part of Panna and Chhattarpur districts 2998.9
Panna Madhya Pradesh deciduous Nilgai,
8 1 in Madhya Pradesh 8[9]
forest Sambhar,
and Sloth
bear

Key faunas[edit]
 Name Key fauna

Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve Lion Tailed Macaque (EN), Nilgiri Tahr (EN), Malabar Giant Squirrel (LC), Nilgiri Langur (VU)

Nanda Devi Snow Leopard (VU), Musk Deer (EN), Bharal Or Blue Sheep (LC)