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Kaziranga National Park
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How it came to be
Kaziranga lies on the floodplain of the Brahmaputra in Assam, a mix of tall elephant grass, marsh and tropical forest. In the winter of 1904 Mary Curzon, wife of the Viceroy of India, came hoping to see a one-horned rhinoceros and found only hoof marks. She persuaded her husband to act, and on 1 June 1905 the Kaziranga Proposed Reserve Forest was created, covering 232 km².
In 1950 the game sanctuary was renamed Kaziranga Wildlife Sanctuary to shed its hunting associations. Poaching continued, and 567 rhinos were killed between 1980 and 2005. Each monsoon the Brahmaputra floods most of the park.
UNESCO listed Kaziranga in 1985. It holds the world's largest population of Indian one-horned rhinoceros, which UNESCO estimates at over 2,000.
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