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 …
The CBI has taken up the probe into the killing of rhinos in Assam following unabated rise in such incidents even as the state government turns to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a bid to tackle illegal poaching of these animals. Environment and Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain said today that …
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has taken up the investigation into the spurt in rhino poaching in the State. State Forest and Environment Minister Rockybul Hussain told mediapersons today that the Department of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pension of Government of India had sent a communication informing the former …
A game reserve in South Africa has taken the radical step of poisoning rhino horns so that people risk becoming "seriously ill" if they consume them. Sabi Sand said it had injected a mix of parasiticides and indelible pink dye into more than 100 rhinos' horns over the past 18 …
Guwahati: One more translocated rhino was poached in Manas National Park in western Assam bordering Bhutan Himalayas. Forest officials informed that the poachers cut away the horn of the animal after killing it in Kahitema Beat of Bansbari Range of the Park on Tuesday. It happened to be fourth translocated …
Guwahati: One more translocated rhino was poached in Manas National Park in western Assam bordering Bhutan Himalayas. Forest officials informed that the poachers cut away the horn of the animal after killing it in Kahitema Beat of Bansbari Range of the Park on Tuesday. It happened to be fourth translocated …
These are ‘secret killers’ all right but when they go for the kill, they go for the one–horned rhinos (rhinoceros unicornis), not humans! In the killing fields of Kaziranga, poachers have shot dead more than a dozen rhinos this year. Last year, they had killed 21 of them. If the …
The population of rhinos has grown in the latest census, which concluded in the Kaziranga National Park on Monday, bringing relief to the Assam forest department. The world heritage site for the one-horned rhino was in the limelight for being the target of poachers since January 2013. The rhino census …
Guwahati: Kaziranga National Park’s rhino population has risen by 39 in the 11 months till March 2013 despite the growing number of poaching cases. Forest and environment minister Rockybul Hussain on Tuesday said, “In the last estimation done in April 2012, the rhino population was 2,290. In the next 11 …
Jorhat: Kaziranga National Park authorities launched a rhino census on Sunday. The two-day exercise will be conducted in all the five ranges of the park — Kohora, Bagori, Burapahar, Agoratoli and Biswanathghat. More than 250 personnel from the state forest department, NGOs and media groups have been engaged in the …
KAZIRANGA: “The rhino census in the Kaziranga National Park will be held on March 24 and 25” officials said. The census, will be held in all the five ranges of the Kaziranga National Park. Due to the census, the KNP will remain closed from March 23 to 25. The five …
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 …
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 …
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 and Plant Conservation Department and delegates at the Cites conference in Bangkok to step up action against the …
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 specialist. "China has been serious about strengthening its regulations and law enforcement on the illegal wildlife products trade," said John Scanlon, …
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) highlighted the gravity of the problem as the state stood second in the country in the category of …
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 …
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, …
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 taken place around the Kaziranga National Park in Assam state, home to more than two-thirds of the world's …
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 police. A month-long trans-border police operation, conducted between January 6 and February 5 and coordinated by an …
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 …
