Kaziranga owes a lot to the efforts of persuasive wildlife enthusiast, Bapiram Hazarika, popularly known as Nigona shikari.

In January 1905, Lady Mary Victoria Leiter Curzon, wife of Lord George Curzon, then Viceroy of India, visited Kaziranga.

Nigona got an opportunity to explain to Lady Curzon all about Kaziranga. He described how white hunters killed rhinos indiscriminately. He persuaded her to convince her all-powerful husband to issue orders that would prohibit the hunting of rhinos in Assam.

Kaziranga was notified as a reserve forest in the British period and became a National Park in February 1974.

In 1974, forest officials said it was a difficult task to tell the locals they could no longer go into the forest to collect firewood.

Three decades later, the people are better informed and the one-horned rhino has become the official logo for many companies and corporations.