Why in the news?

• The Director of Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve has received the Kenton R. Miller Award, constituted by the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA).

Kaziranga National Park

• Location: Assam
• Formation: It was created in the year of 1904.
• Protection Status:
  • 1974: National Park
  • 1985: UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • 2007: Tiger Reserve
• Recognition: The park has been identified as an Important Bird Area by the Birdlife International Society
• Associated River: River Brahmaputra, Diphlu River
• Big Four Species: Rhino, Elephant, Royal Bengal tiger, and Asiatic water buffalo
• Vegetation: It is a mix of eastern wet alluvial grasslands, semi evergreen forests and tropical moist deciduous forests
• Fauna: One Horned Rhino ,Fishing Cat , Royal Bengal tiger , Barking deer, Hog deer, western hoolock gibbon