With French and Indian technical and financial support, the Indo-Pacific Parks Partnership (IP3) will facilitate partnership activities for interested natural parks of the Indo-Pacific region.
Activities under Indo-Pacific Parks Partnership
- These activities include biodiversity conservation, wildlife management and engagement with local communities.
- Artificial highlands where animals can escape during floods; more than 200 anti-poaching camps; alternate livelihood training for local communities — these measures at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam will form the cornerstone of an Indo-French initiative announced in 2022.
- The Kaziranga project is a part of a larger Assam Project on Forest and Biodiversity Conservation (APFBC) for which the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) has committed funding of €80.2 million for a 10-year period, between 2014-2024.
About Kaziranga National Park
- Kaziranga National Park lies partly in Golaghat District and partly in Nagaon District of Assam. It is the oldest park in assam covers an area of 430 Sq kms along the river Brahmaputra on the North and the Karbi Anglong hills on the South.
- The National Highway 37 passes through the park area and tea estates, hemmed by table-top tea bushes.
- Kaziranga National Park a world heritage site is famous for the Great Indian one horned rhinoceros, the landscape of Kaziranga is of sheer forest, tall elephant grass, rugged reeds, marshes & shallow pools. It has been declared as National Park in 1974.
