Kaziranga National Park

Why in news? The government of India has launched the Kaziranga Elevated Corridor Project. The 86 km long Kaziranga Elevated Corridor project is an environmentally conscious National Highway project. 
•    It will feature 35 km of Elevated Wildlife Corridor that will pass through Kaziranga National Park. The project aims to improve regional connectivity while ensuring protection of the park’s rich biodiversity.
•    Kaziranga National Park
•    Location : Assam
•    it is the single largest undisturbed and representative area in the Brahmaputra Valley floodplain.
•    Holds world's largest population of one-horned rhinoceroses.
•    Fauna: tigers, elephants, panthers, wild water buffalo, gaur, eastern swamp deer, Sambar deer, hog deer, capped langur, hoolock gibbon and sloth bear.  
•    Declared as a Tiger Reserve in 2007. The park has recorded one of the highest density of tigers in the country. 
•    Kaziranga is located at the junction of the Australasia and Indo-Asian flyway; crucial for globally threatened migratory bird species. 
•    1985 :  UNESCO World Heritage Site status