The national park consists of dry deciduous forests; fauna includes tiger, deer and birds.

The protected area is covered with small hills and teak mixed forest in the southern reaches of the Satpura Range.

[5] Pench National Park hosts Bengal tiger, Indian leopard, Indian wolf, chital, sambar, barking deer, four-horned antelope, gaur, nilgai, wild boar, golden jackal, fox, striped hyena, sloth bear, dhole, porcupine, Semnopithecus entellus, Rhesus monkey and jungle cat.

Some of them are Indian peafowl, junglefowl, Indian vulture, crow pheasant, crimson-breasted barbet, red-vented bulbul, racket-tailed drongo, Crested serpent eagle, Nisaetus cirrhatus, Indian roller, magpie robin, lesser whistling teal, pintail, shoveller, egret and herons, minivet, oriole, wagtail, munia, myna, waterfowl and common kingfisher.

[6] The forest reserve has also provided location for the BBC wildlife series Tiger: Spy in the Jungle, a three-part documentary narrated by David Attenborough.