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Assam

Name of the Project: Management of Eco-system of Kaziranga National
Park by Creating Climate Resilient Livelihood for Vulnerable
Communities.
Project Focus: Forest Conservation
Location: Kaziranga National Park spreading across Bokakhat and
Golaghat Districts of Assam
Project Finance: Rs. 24.57 Crore (USD 3.28 million)
Duration: 3 Years (2016-2019); Extended up to 2023; Ongoing

Name of Executing Entity: Department of Environment & Forest,
Govt. of Assam
Project Beneciaries: Approximately 2,365 local community members of
the Project Districts.

Project Area: Assam, a north-eastern state of India is well known for its wildlife, archaeological sites and tea plantations.
Kaziranga National Park (KNP), a world heritage site spread over an area of 884.43 sq km lies partly in three districts
namely Golaghat, Nagaon and Sonitpur, and form a conservation complex with the Karbi Anglong Hills in the south of
the state. e hills of Karbi Anglong make the watershed for the rivers, viz., Difaloo, Mori Difaloo, Mori Dhansiri, etc.
and supports the fragile ecosystem and biodiversity and livelihoods of the
local people. e mean temperature in the state is recorded to increase by
0.01 ° C/year and annual rainfall to decrease by -2.96 mm/year.

KNP is vulnerable to climate change
due to the complex geological and
geomorphological dynamics of the
river Brahmaputra, its ooding events,
soil erosion, etc. Due to ooding
events, it has lost more than 84 sq km
of prime habitat to the river
Brahmaputra, thus adversely aecting
its ecosystem productivity. In order to
address the above issues, the given
project envisions to minimize
anthropogenic inuence on the
vulnerable KNP ecosystem already
eected by climate change through the Deforestation and Drying up
promotion of organic farming, pond of the Perennial Water Streams
based shery, watershed management
and capacity building initiatives on the
north bank and south bank of the
Brahmaputra River along the KNP.
Accumulation of silt in the
Gorpal-Kasamari Beel

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