The Manas National Park, a "Project Tiger" reserve, lies between the foothills of the Himalaya mountains in Assam. It lies approximately 175 km far from Guwahati, the next airpiort. The protectorate received its name from the river Manas. The park area comprises of 2,837 km² and consists of usually untouched Sal trees forests, river landscapes and grasslands. The park lies between the height of 40 and 140 meters and has an area of 50,000 hectares. The kernel protection zone lies in the district of Kokrajhar and Barpeta. In the north, it adjoins "Royal manas nationally park "in Buthan.
Originally well known under the name "North Kamrup", Manas was recognised in 1928 to the wild protectorate. In April 1973, the area became the the kernel zone of the Manas tiger reserve and in 1985, it got the status of the "Threatened World Natural Heriatges" of the UNESCO. On 7th of September 1990, Manas got the status of national park. The park was set in 1992 on the red list of the endangerd world heritages. An attack through armed separatists of the Bodo had extensively destroyed the infrastructure of the park. The population of many animals of the park was considerably reduced. It was assumed that the rhinos were completely extincted from this park. Not until the last years the security situation consolidated itself so far that again rhinos can be established. 61royal tigers and 658 elephants in the zone of the park were observed in 2006.
The single tiger reserve in Assam, also famous for the golden langurs and the red Panda, belongs to best most cultivated protectorate in India. The second largest Tiger population of India is domiciled here. Other inhabitants of Manas are: Elephants, rhinos, swamp deer, Gaur and other types to be seen not easily such as clouded leopard, Asian gold cat, fish cat, dwarf pig. In Manas live over 450 species of bird, of which the double horn bird and the Bengal florican are the stars, because they are among the 50 rarest birds of the world.
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