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Pride Of Assam : The Kaziranga

KAZIRANG NATIONAL PARK The  history of  Kaziranga National Park  in the Golaghat and Nagaon districts of the state of  Assam ,  India , can be traced back to the beginning of the twentieth century, in 1904. It now is a  World Heritage Site  and hosts two-thirds of the world's Great One-horned Rhinoceroses, tigers, and many other endangered animals. The park formally became a  Reserve Forest  in 1908, a  game sanctuary  in 1916, and it was closed officially for shooting in 1926. Kaziranga was thrown open to visitors in 1938. After the  independence of India , Kaziranga was declared a  Wildlife Sanctuary  in 1950 and  UNESCO  declared Kaziranga a  World Heritage Site  in 1985and the  park has the world's single largest breeding population of  Indian rhinoceros ,  with the 2006 census estimating the present population to be around 1,855, around 70% of the world's total wild population of 2,700. The park contains significant stock of three other large herbivores — the  Asi