What is the main difference between wildlife sanctuary and national park?
Wildlife sanctuaries are the areas which help in preservation of species of wild plants and animals. Wildlife sanctuaries are the places where killing animals and cutting trees are prohibited. Threatened wild animals like black buck, white eyed buck, elephant, python, rhinoceros, marsh crocodile golden cat are preserved here.
National parks are large and diverse reserves which help in protection of different ecosystems. These can protect flora, fauna and many other aspects of the ecosystem. Different wild animals like snow leopard, clouded leopard, marbled cat, panda, black bear, blud sheep, wild ass, toucan, musk deer etc are protected from getting extinct.Corbett national park, Kanha national park, Sanjay national park, Periyar national park, Bannughatta national park are some of the national parks in India.