Severe floods every year cause great loss to the natural habitat, death of wild animals and destruction of protection structures present in the park. Flooding causes many animals to migrate outside the park where they are susceptible to hunting and reprisal for crop damage. Absence of adequate high grounds within the park as places of refuge for the animals during high floods adds to mismanagement on the part of the park authorities. The period just after the receding of the flood water appears to be a hard time for the herbivores as the areas around the beels are surrounded by rotting grasses and plant remains. Brahmaputra River erodes large area along the northern boundary of Kaziranga, which reduces the total geographical area of the Park and thereby reduces the habitat for the wild animal. According to satellite data area was lost to floods in between 1967–68 and 1998–99, although silt deposition also leads to new land forming in other areas.