Kaziranga National Park

Kaziranga National Park is the world's primary protection area of the Indian rhino. The park is located in Assam, Northeast India. The natural surroundings consist of tall elephant grass, marshland, and dense tropical moist broadleaf forests, crisscrossed by four major rivers, including the Brahmaputra, and the park includes numerous small bodies of water.

Two-thirds of the world's Great One-horned Rhinoceroses live in the park, and Kaziranga has the highest density of tigers among protected areas in the world. The park also has large breeding populations of elephants, water buffalo and swamp deer. Located on the edge of the Eastern Himalaya biodiversity hotspot, the park combines high-species diversity and visibility.

Year	Decision	Comments
1985	Inscribed	Reasons for inscription

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» Camera traps spot 118 tigers in Kaziranga (01-05-2012).
» Barely four days after a group of poachers killed a female rhino inside Kaziranga National Park and took away its horn, the World Heritage Site lost another rhino on Friday. Forest guards found the carcass of a rhino calf (03-09-2011).
» Rhino killed in Kaziranga, again (31-08-2011).
» Floodwaters enter Kaziranga, steps taken to protect animals (20-07-2011).
» Poachers kill rhino in Kaziranga, chop off its horn (05-06-2011).
» Dutch tourist killed by wild elephant in Kaziranga (12-04-2009).
» Floods submerge 80 per cent of Kaziranga National Park (14-09-2008).
» Reprieve for Kaziranga: Expansion of NH-37 halted (19-08-2008).
» Poachers killed a female rhino and its calf when they strayed out of the Kaziranga national park. (23-01-2008).