Bor Wildlife Sanctuary in Maharashtra will become the country's 47th Tiger Reserve. MoS of Environment, Forests and Climate Change and the Chairperson of the National Tiger Conservation Authority, Prakash Javadekar, on Wednesday approved the recommendation on a proposal from the state for notifying the Bor Sanctuary, New Bor Sanctuary and the New Bor Extended Wildlife Sanctuary as a core tiger habitat of a tiger reserve.

The habitat is scenic and is on the boundary of Nagpur and Wardha districts, amidst the Satpura-Maikal landscape, forming catchment of the River