At the turn of the twentieth century, fewer than a dozen greater one-horned rhinos remained in Kaziranga. Today the park holds over 2,600 — roughly two-thirds of the world's population of the species.
That recovery is the result of decades of anti-poaching patrols, habitat protection, and a strict no-tolerance policy that continues to this day. Threats remain — poaching for rhino horn hasn't disappeared, and annual flooding from the Brahmaputra reshapes the park every monsoon — but Kaziranga remains one of the great conservation stories in South Asia.