When Mary Victoria Leiter Curzon , wife of the then Viceroy of India , Lord Kurzon , visited the area in 1904 , she failed to see a single Rhinocerous , for which the area was acclaimed for. Dismayed with this , She persuaded her husband to take urgent measures to save these endangered species. As a result , one 1st of June 1905 , he Kaziranga Proposed Reserve Forest was created with an area of 232 km2.Kaziranga was designated a reserve forest in 1908.From 1916 to 1938 it remained game sanctuary.However after that hunting was inhibited and visitors were allowed to enter the park. In 1950 , P.D Stracey , the then forest conservationist renamed the Kaziranga game sanctuary as Kaziranga wild life sanctuary inorder to get rid of the name of hunting connotations.The state Government passed "The Assam National Park act of 1968 " fourteen years later assigning Kaziranga the title of a national park.In the year 1985 , UNESCO declared Kaziranga as a world heritage site for its suigeneris natural environment. There are many legends associated with the name "Kaziranga". according to one story , a girl named Ranga from a village nearby loved a youth named Kazi from Karbi Anglong. The couple disappared into the forest never to be seen again because their families were against this alliance. Hence the forest was named after them. According to another tale , Srimanta Sankar dev , the sixteenth century saint and scholar , once blessed a childless couple name kazi and Rangai and asked them to dig a pond in the region so that their name would live on. Kaziranga possesses significant breeding populations of 35 mammalian species,of which 15 are threatened as per the IUCN Red List. The park has the distinction of being home to the world's largest population of the Great Indian One-Horned Rhinoceros , Wild Asiatic Water Buffalo and Eastern Swamp Deer . Significant populations of large herbivores include elephants gaur and sambar . Small herbivores include the Indian Muntjac, wild boar, and hog deer.Kaziranga was declared a Tiger Reserve in 2006. Kaziranga has been identified by Birdlife International as an Important Bird Area.Variety of migratory birds can be seen in this national park like , Lesser White-fronted Goose, Ferruginous Duck, Baer's Pochard duck and Lesser Adjutant, Greater Adjutant, Black-necked Stork, and Asian Openbill stork. Kaziranga has well facililated tourists lodge. Guided tours by elephant or jeep are available.Authorised guides of the forest department accompany all travellers inside the park. Mahout-guided elephant rides and Jeep can be booked in advance. This is a just a glimpse of kaziranga through words. For the real incredible experience visit kaziranga and make sure you have all the required information.