Some traders in areas that usually escape inundation invested in solar gadgets before the arrival of the monsoon in June The sun has created a flood of business opportunities in the monsoon-mauled Assam.
it was a festival with a difference - the spotlight was on elephants. The venue was Kaziranga National Park (knp), Assam. Besides being a huge hit with tourists, the three-day festival from January
Assam, India, is one of the last remaining strongholds of the Indian rhino, an animal that is dependent on conservation because of threats from poaching and destruction of habitat. Field research was carried
the one-horned rhinoceros at the Kaziranga National Park is facing a serious threat not only from floods in the Brahmaputra river but also from poachers who are hunting down animals trying to
THE usually docile animals of the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, after a month-long desperate attempt to flee incessant floods, hunger and killer vil-lagers, have turned violent. A number of
• The Punjab government has decided to introduce the study of environment, with major stress on bird and wildlife, as a course in the state universities. Informed official sources recently
Marauding elephants in Assam s Kaziranga national park killed 70 people last year
wildlife experts in Assam say that construction of roads and heavy traffic movement through the jungles of Assam is affecting the flora and fauna of the region. They have urged the government to
THE one-horned rhinos of Kaziranga National Park, Assam, may yet get a fresh lease of life. Park officials, dismayed by poaching incidents, have demanded an additional 400 sq km area to the
The number of one-horned rhinos in the Kaziranga National Park has risen to 1,160 from 1,129 in 1991, Assam state wildlife officials say. But Assam's principal conservator of forests (wildlife) in
The concept of national parks
