Parsa National Park (PNP)
Parsa National Park (12th National Park of the Country), is located in south central lowland of Nepal of province 2 and 3 in Parsa, Bara and Makwanpur districts. It is connected with Chitwan National Park ( A World Heritage Site) in the West and Valmiki Tiger Reserve of India in the South-western part. It was initially established as Parsa Wildlife Reserve in 1984 ( 2041 B.S. ) with a an area of 499km2 aiming to preserve Asian Wild Elephant (Elephus maximus ) and their remaining habitat of historical Char-Koshe-Jhadi which was spread over Terai from east to west of Nepal. Through the gazette of August 24, 2015 (Bhadra 7,2072) , an area of 128.39 km2 of Bara district was added to it including Halkhoria lake as one of the major wildlife habitat making a total area of 627.39 km2. With this extension, the status of Wildlife Reserve was changed to National Park on July 3, 2017 ( Ashadh 19,2074 ).