State of the Rhino 2023
Apart from poaching and habitat loss, climate change-induced droughts have been threatening the rhino population in Africa, pointed out a new report. On the other hand, climate disruptions in Asia can
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Illegal settlements hurting rhino conservation
The Kaziranga National Park, abode of one-horned Indian rhino and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Assam has been facing a stiff challenge in keeping poachers at bay primarily because of growing number of settlements of suspected illegal migrants from Bangladesh around the park’s core area. Poachers have been virtually on a rampage in the park since the beginning of this year, killing nine rhinos so far. This is alarming given the fact that the park, where conservation of wildlife goes back to over a century, is one of the biggest success stories in terms of conservation of rhinos.
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Illegal settlers posed threat to Kaziranga Park wildlife
Guwahati: The famed abode on one-horned Indian rhino and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Kaziranga National Park in Assam has faced tough challenge to keep rampaging rhino poachers under check basically because of growing number of settlements suspected illegal migrants from Bangladesh around the Park’s core area. The poachers have been virtually on rampage in the Park since the beginning of this year killing nine precious rhinos so far in the Park, according to official figures.
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US pledges more money to tackle illegal wildlife trade
The United States has pledged more financial support to help tackle the illegal trade of wildlife and plants in Asean. Activists from Animal Activist Alliance Thailand call on the National Parks, Wildlife
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China fights against illicit wildlife trade
China has made significant progress and joined international campaigns to fight against the illicit trade in wildlife products, including ivory and rhino horn, according to a top wildlife conservation
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Man-animal conflict: Assam 2nd in killings by animals, NCRB report says
The shrinking forest cover has not only escalated man-animal conflict in Assam, but has also resulted in increasing casualties on both sides. A recent report by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)
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AJYCP protests against failure of Forest Department
Kaziranga: Protesting against the death of 12 rhinos in the last two months at the Kaziranga National Park, activists of the Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuva Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) today staged a rally from Kohora to Mihimukh under Central Range, Kaziranga National Park and burnt the effigy of the Forest Department. Dipak Hazarika, Joint Secretary of the AJYCP said, “The increase in poaching activity has made it clear that our Forest minister and the Forest Department has failed to protect rhinos and other wild animals in our national parks.”
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Wildlife protection gone for a toss
DIBRUGARH: The impunity with which poachers are killing wild animals, especially the one–horned rhinoceros in the State, is worrying. The recovery of the headless carcass of an elephant at Charaipung range reinforces the ineffectiveness of the wildlife protection measures of the forest department. Since 2007, 93 rhinos have been killed, 12 of them in the last two months. In September last year, five rhinos were killed, two on consecutive days. The discovery of a rhino whose horn had been cut away while it was left to die a slow death last year, sent shock waves but since then, more such killings with the same modus operandi have taken place.
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Poachers kill 13 rhinos in India
Poachers in northeast India have slaughtered 13 endangered one-horned rhinos in the last two months, officials said as another death added to worries about a recent surge in killings. The attacks have
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Nepal ‘active transit’ for wildlife trade
The ‘regional mafia’ has made Nepal an active transit hub for the illicit trafficking of wildlife parts, according to evidences gleaned from the recent seizures of large amounts of such material by the
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Poaching takes toll on Rhinoland
Rhinos in Assam are back in the cross-hairs of poachers. Following a lull of hardly a month towards the end of 2012, the poachers have returned to Kaziranga National Park, gunning down seven rhinos in the current year. That makes it one rhino killed every week there alone. And two other rhinos have been killed elsewhere in the state. "Yes, incidents of poaching have gone up in the past few weeks," said Assam forest and environment minister Rockybull Hussain. "What is alarming is that while earlier it was criminals and smugglers who were involved in poaching of rhinos, recent incidents have revealed the involvement of armed militant groups."