“A team of IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) evaluators will visit the park from Oct 3 to 12 to survey the park’s biodiversity,” says park director Ajay Srivastav. This will be the first visit of IUCN experts to the park since it was short-listed for Unesco’s World Heritage status in 2009, he said. The Kaziranga National Park and the Manas Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam, the Keoladeo National Park in Rajasthan, the Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks in Uttarakhand and the Sundarbans National Park in West Bengal are other areas in India that are already on Unesco’s world heritage list.