Context: Recently, Kaziranga National Park (KNP) has become the first national park in India to be equipped with satellite phones.
Key Points

• The satellite phones will give an edge to the forest personnel over the poachers and also during emergencies like floods.
• The public is barred from using satellite phones in India. Satellite phones can connect from anywhere as they are directly connected to satellites around the world and do not depend on terrestrial mobile networks, as cellphones do.

About 

• Kaziranga National Park lies partly in Golaghat District and partly in Nagaon District of Assam. 
• It is the oldest park in Assam covering an area of 430 sq km along the river Brahmaputra on the North and the Karbi Anglong hills on the South. 
• National Highway 37 passes through the park area.
• It is a world heritage site that is famous for the Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros.
• It was declared a National Park in 1974.
• It is recognized as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International for the conservation of avifaunal species. 

Biodiversity 

• The landscape of Kaziranga is of sheer forest, tall elephant grass, rugged reeds, marshes & shallow pools. 
• It is inhabited by the world’s largest population of one-horned rhinoceroses, as well as many mammals, including tigers, elephants, panthers and bears, and thousands of birds.