Manas Wildlife Sanctuary

The 950-square-kilometre tiger reserve on the Himalayan foothills of Assam, on the Bhutan border, listed as endangered on UNESCO's World Heritage Site register from 1992 to 2011 due to extensive Bodo militancy damage and poaching. The park holds Himalayan-foothill biodiversity — tigers, Asian elephants, golden langurs, the endangered pygmy hog (found only here, with 100 individuals) and the hispid hare. The Royal Manas National Park across the Bhutan border forms a transboundary conservation unit of 2,900 sq km. Established 1928, gazetted a national park in 1990, UNESCO 1985. Recovery after 2003 with Bodo peace accord and anti-poaching patrols brought the tiger population from 15 (2011) back to around 50 (2022).