Recently, three persons engaged as mahouts in the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve have been arrested for capturing and consuming a rare species of freshwater turtle inside the National Park.

About Kaziranga National Park:

• It is located in the state of Assam.
• It is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site and houses two-thirds of the total world population of greater one-horned rhinoceros.
• Flora:
  • It is a mix of eastern wet alluvial grasslands, semi-evergreen forests and tropical moist deciduous forests.
  • It is primarily famous for its dense and tall elephant grasses intermixed with small swamplands.
  • It also includes an abundant cover of water lilies, water hyacinths and lotus.
• Fauna:
  • It is home to the One-horned rhinoceros, Leopard, Fishing Cat, other Lesser cats, royal Bengal tiger, Large Indian Civet, Small Indian Civet, Sambar, Barking deer, Hog deer, Gaur, Hog Badger, Capped Langur, etc.
  • It is also one of the last remaining homes of the endangered and endemic western hoolock gibbon, the only species of apes found in India. 
  • It is one of the last homes of the critically endangered Bengal florican