Centennial Celebration

Centennial Journey of Manas National Park:

1905 – Manas proposed Reserve Forest
1907 – Manas Reserve Forest
1928 – Manas Wildlife Sanctuary covering an area of 360 sq. km.
1955 – The Wildlife Sanctuary is extended to 391 sq. km.
1977 – It became core zone of Manas Tiger Project
1985 – Inscribed to World Heritage site by UNSCO.
1989 – Declared as a Biosphere Reserve
1990 – Declared as Manas National Park with an area of 519 sq. km.
2002 – Care zone of Chirang Ripu Elephant Reserve under project elephant

The Centenary Logo-‘Mwsha Bahadur’:

Manas began its conservation history as a reserved forest then upgraded to a protected area and a game sanctuary during the British Raj. This area was famous for hunting and ‘shikar’ of carnivores like tiger and angling for Golden Mahsheer a sporting fish of the hill stream. Scenic Grandeur of Manas and the geomorphology, biodiversity gave it a status of world heritage site in the year 1985. Inspite of the British tradition ‘shikar’ in Manas the Tiger has survived in Manas due to hard conservation measures in the post independence period. Thanks to project Tiger initiated by Mrs. Indira Gandhi, the first lady Prime Minister of India. Manas celebrates its 100th years of existence and so does the tiger under most harassing situation. The logo depicts a naughty smiling Tiger giving a thumps up sign as he winks his left eye. This personifies the spirit to live on and with him the ecosystem with unique landscape lives on. He is a holistic symbol of conservation of Manas landscape for a hundred year. His name is ‘Mwsha Bahadur’. ‘Mwsha’ in local ‘Bodo’ language is Tiger and Bahadur means a victor.
 

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