Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary in the Upper Gangetic plain, near Bahraich city in Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh, India and covers an area of in the Terai of the Bahraich district. It was established in 1975.Tripahti, K. P., Singh, B. (2009). Species diversity and vegetation structure across various strata in natural and plantation forests in Katerniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary, North India. Tropical Ecology 50(1): 191–200. In 1987, it was brought under the purview of the Project Tiger, and together with the Kishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary and the Dudhwa National Park it forms the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve.Mathur, P. K. and N. Midha (2008). Mapping of National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries, Dudhwa Tiger Reserve . WII – NNRMS - MoEF Project, Final Technical Report. Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. It is part of the Terai Elephant Reserve.
Fauna Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary is located in the Gangetic plains. The sanctuary consists of mixed deciduous forest with sal trees. It is home to many wild animals including chital, hog deer, wild boar, tiger, elephant, leopard, jackal, langur, porcupine and otter. It hosts many reptiles, including mugger crocodile, gharial, rock phython and king cobra. In 2012, a red coral kukri snake was sighted in the sanctuary. This snake was first described from the North Kheri district in 1936.Green, M. (2010). Molecular Phylogeny of the Snake Genus Oligodon (Serpentes: Colubridae), with an Annotated Checklist and Key. M. Sc. thesis, University of Toronto.
In 2025, there were 131 leopards in the sanctuary.
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