Pilibhit Tiger Reserve is located in Pilibhit district and Shahjahanpur of Uttar Pradesh. This Tiger Reserve area forms a part of the Terai Arc Landscape in the upper Gangetic Plain Biogeographic Province along the India- Nepal order. Sal forest, and tall grassland characterize this habitat, and swamps maintained by periodic flooding from rivers. The Sharda Sagar Dam extending up to a length of 22 km (14 mile) is on the boundary of the reserve.
It is a 730.24 square kilometers forest area, 602.79 square kilometers core area which is restricted for human habitation and 127.45 square kilometers buffer area. Pilibhit Tiger Reserve got the TX2 international award for the first time for making the tiger population double of the reserved area in a stipulated time.