Wildlife & Conservation
What the forest still holds.
The greater one-horned rhinoceros, the hoolock gibbon, the Bengal florican, the clouded leopard. The forests of the Northeast are among the last refuges, and they hold on because communities choose for them to.
Golaghat & Nagaon, Assam
Kaziranga — Of Rhino and River
Reserved forest 1908 · Living habitat
Mary Curzon could not find a single rhinoceros on her 1904 visit. Her husband signed the reservation order four years later. Today Kaziranga shelters two-thirds of the world's surviving population.
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