Kaziranga National Park

Subject – Environment

Context – SC panel tells Assam to act on illegal construction

Concept –

Location	State of Assam Located on the edge of the Eastern Himalaya biodiversity hotspot.
Feature	Single largest undisturbed and representative area in the Brahmaputra Valley floodplain.
Legal Status	Declared as a National Park in 1974. Declared a tiger reserve since 2007.
International Status	Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985. Recognized as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International.
Important Fauna found	Home of the world’s most one-horned rhinos. (Note – Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary has the highest density of one-horned rhinos in the world and second highest number of Rhinos in Assam after Kaziranga National Park) The ‘big four’ species— Rhino, Elephant, Royal Bengal tiger and Asiatic water buffalo. (Note – As per the figures of tiger census conducted in 2014, Kaziranga had an estimated 103 tigers, the third highest population in India after Jim Corbett National Park (215) in Uttarakhand and Bandipur National Park (120) in Karnataka)
Flora	Alluvial inundated grasslands Alluvial savanna woodlands Tropical moist mixed deciduous forests Tropical semi-evergreen forests.
River passing through	Brahmaputra River (northern and eastern boundaries) Diphlu River (southern boundary) Mora Dhansiri.
Highways	National Highway 37 passes through the park area
Other national parks in Assam	Dibru-Saikhowa National Park, Manas National Park, Nameri National Park, Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park.