Rhino demoted
From endangered to vulnerable
THE International Union for Conservation of Nature or iucn has lowered the threat level of the Indian one-horned rhinoceros from endangered to vulnerable. This has not gone down well with conservationists in India who contend rhinos are extremely threatened from poaching and epidemics. Seventy per cent of rhino population is concentrated in just one national park in India, Kaziranga National Park.
The shift has also taken Indian members of iucn