Syllabus Section: Environment and Ecology

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The park can now be explored by boats while bicycle tracks are being finalised. One can go trekking too.

About:

• It is a national park in Assam.

• Formed in 1908 on the recommendation of Mary Curzon, the park is located in the edge of the Eastern Himalayan biodiversity hotspots – Golaghat and Nagaon district.

• The sanctuary, which hosts two-thirds of the world's great one-horned rhinoceroses, is a World Heritage Site

• It is also recognized as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International for the conservation of avifaunal species.

• Much of the focus of conservation efforts in Kaziranga are focused on the ‘big four’ species— Rhino, Elephant, Royal Bengal tiger and Asiatic water buffalo.

• Kaziranga is crisscrossed by four main rivers — Brahmaputra, Diphlu, Mora Diphlu and Mora Dhansiri

 

 

Source: The Hindu