Community Reserves
(Photo: Lalwan Community Reserve, Gitanjali Kanwar)
What is Community Reserves
Conservation reserves and community reserves in India are terms denoting protected areas of India which typically act as buffer zones to or connectors and migration corridors between established national parks, wildlife sanctuaries and reserved and protected forests of India.
Such areas are designated as conservation areas if they are uninhabited and completely owned by the Government of India but used for subsistence by communities and community areas if part of the lands are privately owned. These protected area categories were first introduced in the Wildlife (Protection) Amendment Act of 2002 − the amendment to the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972. These categories were added because of reduced protection in and around existing or proposed protected areas due to private ownership of land, and land use.
List of Community Reserves (As on July, 2023) 
|
Name of State
|
S.No.
|
Name of Protected Area
|
Year of Creation
|
Area (in km2)
|
|
Arunachal Pradesh
|
1
|
Arung
|
2012
|
7.50
|
|
2
|
Banfera Longnakshi
|
2011
|
4.75
|
|
3
|
Chahang
|
2015
|
8.80
|
|
4
|
Martak Riang
|
2016
|
18.00
|
|
5
|
Lal Aane
|
2012
|
37.75
|
|
6
|
Piji Chello Padung
|
2017
|
28.00
|
|
7
|
Rate
|
2019
|
5.77
|
|
8
|
Singchang Begun Village
|
2017
|
17.00
|
|
9
|
Wanu
|
2011
|
4.025
|
|
Bihar
|
1
|
Gogabil Com R
|
2019
|
0.57
|
|
Haryana
|
1
|
Abubshehar
|
2018
|
115.30
|
|
2
|
Golden Jubilee Braham Sarovar
|
2017
|
0.361
|
|
3
|
Shri Guru Jambheswar
|
2019
|
0.05
|
|
4
|
Shaheed Amrita Devi Memorial
|
2019
|
0.0981
|
|
5
|
Guru Gorakhnath
|
2019
|
0.032
|
|
Karnataka
|
1
|
Kokkare Bellur
|
2007
|
3.12
|
|
Kerala
|
1
|
Kadalundi Vallikkunnu
|
2007
|
1.50
|