Kaziranga National Park : Delight to find World's greatest One horned Rhinos

Kaziranga National park is known world wide to support a two third of the world's One horned Rhino population. This National park is located on the banks of the river Brahmaputra in Assam(India) . Though once these endangered species of One horned Indian Rhino were on the verge of extinction but now due to the strict security and protection drive of the forest department their population has plummeted to a number of 1500 as per the census as on 1999.

The dense forests and the thickets of the large open water rivulets serve as the best habitat for the dwelling of the One horned rhinos at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam (India).

But a major concern posing the greatest peril to the Rhinos is the loss of habitat due to erosion and pollution risks.

Therefore the State Wildlife advisory board has taken a decision to allot a sum of Rs 7.8 crore package meant for anti erosion scheme to be implemented at Kaziranga National Park. This amount is midway waiting for its turn to get sanctioned from the National Wildlife board for its last approval.

The scheme was basically prepared by the water resource department especially to protect the Kaziranga national park from erosion caused from river Brahmaputra and pollution aftermaths. The decision was taken at the fifth meeting of the State Wildlife advisory board which was chaired by the honourable Chief Minister of Assam Tarun Gogoi on 28^th August 2009.

A conjoin study done by the Space application Centre in Ahmedabad in India and the Brahmaputra board it was found that in between the period of 1967 and 1998 a considerable land mass of 37.80 sq kms of Kaziranga park was lost due to river erosion.

Therefore the Chief Minister emphasised on the basic point on the need for a permanent solution to erosion problem and the loss of habitat in order to protect the World heritage site.

The study from the project “2009 Kaziranga Rhino population”revealed that there has been a major growth in the population of the Rhinos in the year 2009.It has increased from the number 1,552 in 1999 to 2,048 in 2009.