Overview

• Kaziranga’s inaugural grassland survey recorded 43 bird species, among them the critically endangered Bengal florican, the endangered Finn’s Weaver and six vulnerable species along with regional endemics.
• Field teams conducted point count surveys and deployed passive acoustic monitoring between March 18 and May 25 across the Eastern Assam, Biswanath and Nagaon Wildlife Divisions to maximize detection.
• The identification of a breeding Finn’s Weaver colony in the park’s Kohora Range highlights the critical importance of floodplain grasslands for threatened avian species.
• The survey report reflects a collaborative initiative involving forest officials, ornithologists, conservationists and the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
• Assam’s Environment Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary affirmed a science-based management approach and committed to adaptive conservation and ongoing ecological monitoring of the Brahmaputra floodplain grasslands.