TheBandhavgarh Tiger Reserve(BTR) inMadhya Pradeshhas been recommended to the international committee for Conservation Assured | Tiger Standards (CA|TS) accreditation a globally-accepted conservation tool that sets best practice and standards to manage tigers.It’s a global recognition for good tiger governance.

The 14 reserves which figured in the list included Manas, Kaziranga and Orang in Assam; Sundarbans in West Bengal; Valmiki in Bihar; Dudhwa in Uttar Pradesh; Panna, Kanha and Satpura in Madhya; Pradesh; Pench in Maharashtra; Anamalai and Mudumalai in Nadu; Parambikulam in Kerala; and Bandipur, Karnataka.

Besides 14 in India, only three other sites one each in Nepal, Bhutan and Russia have got the CA|TS tag which is being given through a prescribed process of site registration through external evaluation including verification of evidence.
Globally, the CA|TS is being implemented across 125 sites in seven tiger range countries and 94 of them are in India.