In 1985 the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designated two world heritage sites in the tiny, mountainous province of Assam in northeastern India. UNESCO had sweeping ambitions to conserve the region’s rich ecosystem of tigers, one-horned rhinos, elephants, wild buffalo, and swamp deer. The Kaziranga National Park lay on Assam’s alluvial floodplains […]
Author Archives: Sonali Ghosh
Sonali Ghosh has a degree in wildlife science from the Wildlife Institute of India and has been working as a Forest Service officer with the Indian government for the last twelve years. While on the job she served in Kaziranga National Park and Manas Tiger Reserve in Assam. She is currently pursuing her PhD with a special focus on tiger conservation in the Indo-Bhutan Manas.