The Kaziranga National Park completed 100 years in February 2005.

The park, a habitat of more than 3,000 species of plants and animals, is the greatest conservation success story of the Indian one-horned rhinoceros. Their number has increased from a mere dozen to over 1,700 in the past century.

Apart from being a sanctuary for the rhinos, Kaziranga is the most important wintering ground in the world for the bar-headed goose and the rare ferruginous duck.

Several rare and endangered animals inhabit the park. The Asiatic Elephant, Asiatic wild water buffalo, tiger and the sambhar, swamp hog and barking deer are other animals in the park.

Though it has been around for a century, not much has been written about Kaziranga's early struggle, before it became a reserve forest.