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 lead to the deaths of rhinos. Increased precipitation, longer monsoons and seasonal floods are already resulting in stranding, drowning …
Concerned over growing incidents of poaching of rhinos, five Asian rhino range nations in a resolution asked India to take measures, including increased level of security to wildlife parks, to protect the vulnerable species from extinction. At the meeting of the five countries — Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Nepal …
With the 30{+t}{+h}rhino to be killed this year in India falling to the bullets of poachers at Kaziranga National Park, Assam, on September 17, WWF-India has on the occasion of World Rhino Day urged the Union Environment and Forest Ministry to urgently adopt a National Rhino Conservation Plan. It also …
Expressing concern over spurt in rhino poaching in Assam, WWF-India has said that adoption of National Rhino Conservation Plan (NRCP) has become imperative for the protection of the species. "After decades of conservation success, which resulted in the population of rhinos in Assam rising to more than 2,500 at present, …
Barely five days after a rhino was killed on August 30, Kaziranga National Park lost another rhino to the poachers on Wednesday. The poachers killed the rhino in the Bagori forest range and decamped with its horn. The park officials, however, managed to foil another rhino poaching attempt near Burapahar …
KATHMANDU: The governments of Nepal and China have agreed to step up collaborative efforts in a bid to enforce a crackdown on illegal wildlife trade at the border region of the two countries in a fresh series of measures to enhance trans-boundary cooperation in biodiversity conservation. Government delegates from Nepal …
The central government has turned down the Assam government's proposal for aerial surveillance of the Kaziranga National Park by drones, state forest minister Rockybul Hussain said Wednesday. Hussain added that the proposal had been turned down "due to military and security reasons". The Union ministry of Environment and Forests had …
Barack Obama launched a new initiative against wildlife trafficking on Monday, using his executive authority to take action against an illegal trade that is fueling rebel wars and now threatens the survival of elephants and rhinoceroses. The initiative, announced as the president visited Tanzania on the final stop of his …
Days after the successful translocation of old rhino calf Purabi, around one year old, from Kaziranga to Manas, the Assam forest department in collaboration with the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) is contemplating to translocate five more rhino calves by end of this year. For the first time the Assam …
’’We have been rescuing rhino calves at Kaziranga in various circumstances and most of them are now successfully hand raised at the CWRC. At due course of time, all these calves go back to the wilderness again’’ A female rhino calf – Purabi – on Friday was translocated to Manash …
Not only the translocation of lions to Chandraprabha wildlife sanctuary has failed but ten other translocations across the world have also failed, the latest one being the Indian Rhino's translocation in 2013. Atleast three incidents of translocation of lions have been taken up across the world including two in India …
Census finds 24 big cats in Assam’s smallest national park, beating Corbett Orang has recorded the highest Royal Bengal tiger population ever with 24 tigers being found during the census carried out this year at the smallest national park in the state. The figure was made available exclusively to The …
The Chitwan National Park has handed down prison sentences ranging from 10-15 years to a dozen people found guilty of being involved in poaching rhinos and trading their body parts. National park chief Kamal Jung Kunwar handed down sentences to Amar Bahadur Gurau, Mukti Gurau, Hiralal Mardaniya, Bishnu Bahadur Gurau, …
’’Trading of rhino horns is a highly organized crime. From local operators to a section of wildlife personnel in Assam are involved in this illegal business’’ The poachers who kill one horned rhinos in Assam make huge profit by selling their horns through agents located in countries like Myanmar, Vietnam, …
A project created by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) that uses Raspberry Pi computers to curb the illegal poaching of rhinos in Kenya has been rewarded with a £500,000 prize from Google. The Global IT Challenge aims to award innovative uses of technology that "tackle some of the world's …
GUWAHATI: Protesting against the poaching of rhinos at Kaziranga National Park, Asomiya Yuba Mancha (AYM) today burnt the effigy of Forest Minister Rokybul Hussain and demanded his resignation. Terming him a ’failure’ in protecting the world famous one horn rhino from the clutches of the poachers, the AYM secretary Jitul …
The presence of Indian Bison has been recorded in the UNESCO World Heritage Site Kaziranga National Park (KNP) in Assam after over 30 years, much to the cheers of wildlife conservationists and park officials. KNP director NK Vasu said a huge male Indian Bison was clicked by camera traps installed …
The last known rhinoceroses in Mozambique have been wiped out by poachers apparently working in cahoots with the game rangers responsible for protecting them. The 15 threatened animals were shot dead for their horns last month in the Mozambican part of Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, which also covers South Africa …
Even as a CBI team has arrived to investigate the increasing incidents of poaching of rhinoceros, officials have claimed to have found that poachers are recruiting young men from villages on the fringes of Kaziranga National Park. "We have been told that a number of young men, including minors, have …
The induction of an unmanned aerial vehicle to carry out better surveillance of Kaziranga, the first time this is being done in the country, only underlines the failure of the Tarun Gogoi government to check poaching that has left 16 rhinos dead in the park and other sanctuaries of the …
Guwahati: Wildlife authorities are using aerial drones to oversee a natural game park in northeastern India to protect the one-horned rhinoceros from armed poachers. Security officers conducted flights of the unmanned aircraft over the Kaziranga National Park on Monday and will fly drones at regular intervals to prevent rampant poaching …
