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Kazinag National Park is a national park in Baramulla city of the Baramulla district in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir notified under Wild Life Protection Act 1972. It is part of a proposal for a trans-Karakoram peace park with Pakistan. The area of Kazinag National Park is 160 square kilometres, and it was commissioned in 1992.
Kazinag Peak is a mountain with peak elevation of 4,574 metres (15,007 ft) meters from sea level, [1] located in the uri to Dangiwacha of district baramulla to ...
Kaziranga National Park is a national park in the Golaghat, Sonitpur, Biswanath and Nagaon districts of the state of Assam, India. KNP has 5 ranges. KNP has 5 ranges. The park, which hosts two-thirds of the world's Indian rhinoceroses , is a UNESCO World Heritage Site . [ 2 ]
Kazinag National Park; Kishtwar National Park; O. Overa-Aru Wildlife Sanctuary; R. Rajparian Wildlife Sanctuary; S. Salim Ali National Park This page was last ...
India's first national park was established in 1936, now known as Jim Corbett National Park, in Uttarakhand. In 1970, India had only five national parks. In 1970, India had only five national parks. In 1972, India enacted the Wildlife Protection Act and Project Tiger in 1973 to safeguard the habitats of conservation reliant species and ...
The park contains significant breeding populations of more than 35 mammalian species, [1] out of which 15 are threatened according to the IUCN Red List. [2] The park has the world's single largest breeding population of Indian rhinoceros, [2] with the 2006 census estimating the population to be around 1,855, around 70% of the world's wild ...
To achieve this objective, "The Assam National Park Act of 1968" was passed by the Government of Assam, as there was no provision to create a National Park under the existing Forest Regulations. Kaziranga National Park was established on 11 February 1974, with an area of 429.93 square kilometres vide notification No.FOR/WL/722/68. [1]
For protection of the wildlife the legislative status for Kaziranga National Park represents the "maximum protection under Indian conditions" at national, provincial and municipal levels. A list of 12 acts and constitutional safeguards ranging from the Assam Forest Regulation of 1891 to the Biodiversity Conservation Act of 2002 ensure legal ...