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Pilibhit Tiger Reserve located in Pilibhit and Shahjahanpur Districts of Uttar Pradesh was notified as a tiger reserve in 2014.It forms part of the Terai Arc Landscape in the upper Gangetic Plain along the India-Nepal border. The habitat is characterized by sal forests, tall grasslands and swamp maintained by periodic flooding from rivers. The Sharda Sagar Dam extending up to a length of 22 km is on the boundary of the reserve.Pilibhit is one of the few well-forested districts in Uttar Pradesh.