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While many of India's parks have
been developed from the hunting preserves of princely
India. Bharatpur Wildlife Sanctuary, is perhaps the
only case where the habitat has been created by a
maharaja. Bharatpur town used to be flooded regularly
every monsoon. In 1760, an earthen dam was
constructed, to save the town, from this annual vagary
of nature. The depression created by extraction of
soil for the dam was cleared and this became the
Bharatpur Lake. At the beginning of this century, this
lake was developed, and was divided into several
portions.This became the hunting preserve of the
Bharatpur royalty, and one of the best duck - shooting
wetlands in the world.
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manmade wildlife
sanctuary in India, developed by an erstwhile Maharaja
of Bharatpur as a hunting reserve in 1890. The
sanctuary covers an area of 29 sq km, 10 sq km of
which comprises of fresh water marshes and bogs.
Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary known as the Keoladeo
Ghana National Park. The term 'Ghana' is derived from
Hindi, which means dense and refers to the thick
forest, which covers the entire area. The tourists
mainly visit the Bird Sanctuary, as it is the second
habitat in the world that is visited by the Siberian
Cranes in winter. When the rivers of Siberia are
frozen due to the extreme winters, the Siberian Cranes
visit the sanctuary to spend their winters in India. 
