Kaziranga National Park is situated on the south bank of the Brahmaputra river in Assam. It is famous for the stronghold of the armoured one-horned rhinoceros. Stretching over an area of 430 kmē, Kaziranga is one of the last refuges of the Indian rhino. The national park is a vast stretch of coarse, tall elephant grass, marshland and dense tropical moist broadleaf forests.
Kaziranga was declared a reserve forest in 1908 by British and was officially closed for shooting. By 1950 the area was a wildlife sanctuary, and in 1974 it was designated a national park. Bounded by the misty blue hills of Barail and Karbi Anglong to the south, the national park was declared a UNESCOWorld Heritage Site in 1985. Today it holds the world's largest population of Indian rhinos numbering more than one thousand.
KazirangaNational Park is situated on the south bank of the Brahmaputra river in Assam, India.
Kaziranga reserve was created to preserve Indian rhinocerous numbers, it was established as a proposed forest reserve on June 1, 1905, and Kaziranga was declared a reserve forest in 1908 by the British and was officially closed for shooting in 1926.
Kaziranga is home also to elephants, sloth bears, tigers, leopards, jungle cats, hog badgers, capped langurs, hoolock gibbons, wild boars, jackals, porcupines, pythons, water buffaloes, Indian bison, swamp deer, sambardeers and hog deer.
KazirangaNational Park is a typical example of where the security and survival of endangered species ultimately rests with a group of brave men led by committed senior staff.
Kaziranga is widely considered the best-protected Park in the world, but that is due to the people who work there and not the State government of Assam which has frequently let them down.
KazirangaNational Park has international recognition as a Biosphere Reserve and is not just a vital habitat for 70% of the world's one-horned rhino, but is also home to over 80 tigers, 1,100 elephants and half the world's swamp deer.
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