Sohagibarwa Wild Life Sanctuary
The Chandra Prabha Wild Life Sanctuary is situated in the Chandauli district of
Uttar Pradesh and is a part of the Kashi Wild life Division. In order to combat
the organic and man-made pressure on wild life, in the form of human encroachment
and industrial expansion, combined with an increase in the population; in 1957 a
total area of 9600 hectares was earmarked as a forest area and developed as the
Chandra Prabha Wild Life Sanctuary. An additional buffer area of 66000 hectares
has also been set aside as forest land under the Kashi Forest Division core area.
This buffer area safeguards the core area as well as the Chandra Prabha Wild Life
Sanctuary area from the pressures of human encroachment and industrial expansion.
Chandra Prabha Wild Life Sanctuary is a model, natural –habitat sanctuary for the
wild life found locally or migratory, in the area. A number of grass lands, caves
and waterfalls in the Vindhyachal range dot the landscape. The sanctuary was found
suitable to alleviate the ever-decreasing population of the Asiatic Lion and to
give a boost to the conservation of the Lion, one male lion named Raja and two female
namely, Rani and Jayshree were brought here from the Gir Wild Life Sanctuary, Gujarat
in 1957. Though the lions were actively roaming the area till 1970 but due to the
intense biotic pressure the effort failed.