Harshad Barve
09-21-2011, 07:16 AM
Dear All
Taken in Kaziranga National Park
Kaziranga is a title of a remarkable success story of conservation of the One Horned India Rhinoceros and other wild lives in the North East India. It is not only the homeland of the Great Indian One Horned Rhinoceros,
but also provides shelter to a variety of wild lives. It is one of the significant natural habitat for in situ conservation of biological biodiversity of universal value.
The Kaziranga National Park, India has the distinction of being in the list of World Heritage Sites declared by the UNESCO. This proves the richness in the biodiversity of this area,
which is mainly a swamp forest interspersed with moist deciduous forests. One of the major elements that dominate the landscape of the park is the mighty Brahmaputra River, which floods the plains of the park.
The park is spread over an area of 430 sq.km. ( many more SQ-KM are brought under conservation Area ) and is mainly renowned for the Indian one-horned rhinoceros, which is high on the list of the endangered species.
The park is famous for its inspirational comeback that was brought about by dedicated conservation efforts by the Forest Department officials. The park, which once had a thriving population of the one-horned rhinoceros,
was suddenly faced with the danger of losing this gigantic animal to excessive poaching and game hunting. Till 1950, the park was left with less than 100 rhinos,
which made the Assam State Government take stern steps to conserve and enhance the numbers of the rhinos. The park was fortunate to get some of the best conservationists who fought for the survival of the rhinos.
The result of this is that today, there are about 2,000 rhinos present in Kaziranga National Park, India. Kazi is definitely the best managed NP in Asia as well as world.
And now Kazi has best population of tigers too :cheers:
Kaziranga is a huge game forest with unbelievable diversity in the flora and fauna. Apart from the rhinos, the park consists of mammals like tiger, elephants, wild buffaloes and swamp deer.
Apart from a healthy mammal population, the park has a rich avian assortment with as many as 505 species of birds found.
The tall elephant grass and dense forests of Kaziranga National Park, India provides the right refuge to some of the most gigantic and magnificent animals in the world.
Lets hope Great One Horned Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) will survive and their population grows ,
D300 , 200-400 at F4 ISO 800 , at 250mm, 1/250
Though I am bad at B & W but posted this in monochrome , Lets hope all species of Rhinos will have colorful future :cheers:
All C & C are most welcome
Harshad
PS , All info from various websites
Taken in Kaziranga National Park
Kaziranga is a title of a remarkable success story of conservation of the One Horned India Rhinoceros and other wild lives in the North East India. It is not only the homeland of the Great Indian One Horned Rhinoceros,
but also provides shelter to a variety of wild lives. It is one of the significant natural habitat for in situ conservation of biological biodiversity of universal value.
The Kaziranga National Park, India has the distinction of being in the list of World Heritage Sites declared by the UNESCO. This proves the richness in the biodiversity of this area,
which is mainly a swamp forest interspersed with moist deciduous forests. One of the major elements that dominate the landscape of the park is the mighty Brahmaputra River, which floods the plains of the park.
The park is spread over an area of 430 sq.km. ( many more SQ-KM are brought under conservation Area ) and is mainly renowned for the Indian one-horned rhinoceros, which is high on the list of the endangered species.
The park is famous for its inspirational comeback that was brought about by dedicated conservation efforts by the Forest Department officials. The park, which once had a thriving population of the one-horned rhinoceros,
was suddenly faced with the danger of losing this gigantic animal to excessive poaching and game hunting. Till 1950, the park was left with less than 100 rhinos,
which made the Assam State Government take stern steps to conserve and enhance the numbers of the rhinos. The park was fortunate to get some of the best conservationists who fought for the survival of the rhinos.
The result of this is that today, there are about 2,000 rhinos present in Kaziranga National Park, India. Kazi is definitely the best managed NP in Asia as well as world.
And now Kazi has best population of tigers too :cheers:
Kaziranga is a huge game forest with unbelievable diversity in the flora and fauna. Apart from the rhinos, the park consists of mammals like tiger, elephants, wild buffaloes and swamp deer.
Apart from a healthy mammal population, the park has a rich avian assortment with as many as 505 species of birds found.
The tall elephant grass and dense forests of Kaziranga National Park, India provides the right refuge to some of the most gigantic and magnificent animals in the world.
Lets hope Great One Horned Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) will survive and their population grows ,
D300 , 200-400 at F4 ISO 800 , at 250mm, 1/250
Though I am bad at B & W but posted this in monochrome , Lets hope all species of Rhinos will have colorful future :cheers:
All C & C are most welcome
Harshad
PS , All info from various websites