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India: National Parks
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Kaziranga National Park • Kaziranga is located in northeast India in the state of Assam. On the banks of the Brahmaputra River, the park occupies 164 square miles, combining elephant grass with thorny rattan cane, areas of semi-evergreen forest and shallow swamps. The Karbi Anglong Hills rise in the south of the park. The habitat varies from marches to grassland, woodland, rising to moist deciduous forests and finally to tropical semi-evergreen forests. Kaziranga was declared a game reserve in 1926, to save the Indian one-horned rhino that had become threatened with extinction at the turn of the century. The present rhino population is over 1,100 and although poachers still kill the animal for its horn, you can easily see them in the marshes and grasslands. The parks has an amazing variety of wildlife including wild buffalo, sambar deer, swamp deer (barasingha), hog deer, wild pig, hoolock gibbon, wild elephants, pythons and the tiger. There is a rich variety of shallow-water fowl including egrets, pond herons, river terns, black-neckes stork, fishing eagles and adjutant storks which breed in the park and a pelicanry. The grey pelicans nest in tall trees near the village and there are otters, gharial (long snouted fish eating crocodile) and dolphins in the river. Bandhavgarh + Corbett + Gir Forest + Bharatpur Little Rann of Kutch + Nagarhole + Ranthambor + Kaziranga |
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