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 …
Poachers, suspected to be from Assam, had shot at the male rhino that died in Jaldapara yesterday with festering wounds. A post-mortem report has confirmed the presence of a bullet in the animal
With their area restricted to a 27-sq. km enclosure, their increasing number is pushing them to edge Dudhwa (Uttar Pradesh): A fierce turf war is raging among rhinos in the Dudhwa National Park. With the rhino population rising to 29 with the birth of another calf in mid-September, the fight …
Guwahati: A rhino and a tiger were found dead in Kaziranga on Wednesday, barely a fortnight after the national park suffered three casualties. With the latest deaths, the tiger toll has reached 12 since November 2008 while the rhino toll has risen to six this year alone. The rhino carcass, …
A carcass of a rhino without its horn was found at Pachim Nimali camp under Bagari Range under Kaziranga National Park today. Park officials said that the rhino died of natural causes. On the other hand, a carcass of a tiger was also found at Mikirjan camp under Kahara range …
Poachers have killed two rhinos and robbed them off their precious horns in a span of ten days in Chitwan National Park (CNP), Nagarik daily reported. A male rhino was found in Temple Tiger area on September 2, while a female rhino was found in Krishnasar Community Forest of Nawalparasi …
LUCKNOW: Banke has his clan growing. The dusky old rhino, now 30 plus, has seen his fourth generation set in. When his female partner Rajeshwari gave birth to a calf on Friday (September 11), a new hope dawned for the rhinos in Dudhwa. In the prime of his youth, Banke …
ORANG: Though the Forest department has initiated every possible measure to save the forest areas of the State including the sanctuaries by implementing Forest Act and forming various committees, etc., yet the problems of poachers and encroachment by the suspected Bangladeshi nationals, etc., have been posing a serious threat to …
With the world-famous Kaziranga National Park (KNP) getting maximum attention and focus for being home to the largest stock of one-horned Indian rhinoceros, poachers are increasingly shifting attention to its poor cousin Orang National Park in northern Assam, killing as many as five rhinos in the current year. If poaching …
With concerns mounting over rhinos killed by poachers in the Orang National Park, the Department of Forests has instituted a high-level inquiry into the matter. The inquiry committee will be headed by Daya Mangal Singh, CCF (Wildlife) and include BS Bonal, CCF (Monitoring and Evaluation), and AH Laskar, official sources …
Author-ities in Assam have enforced speed regulations on a highway along the Kaziranga National Park to prevent vehicles from hitting animals fleeing the sanctuary to escape a flood, officials said Monday. Kaziranga is the world
Authorities in Assam have enforced speed regulations on a highway along the famed Kaziranga National Park to prevent vehicles from hitting animals fleeing the sanctuary to escape a flood, officials said here on Monday. Kaziranga is the world
Five teams of the forest department today fanned out on elephant backs in Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary to identify herbivores that showed signs of illness. After the body of a rhino calf was found in the sanctuary on Sunday, foresters are not taking any chances as they fear that the death …
Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary is gearing up for a possible anthrax attack as a rhino calf is suspected to have died of the disease yesterday. The worried Jaldapara authorities have written to Calcutta to send anthrax vaccines as well as tranquillisers for big animals like elephants and rhinos. There is also …
The Indian one-horned rhinoceros which is the pride of India in general and Assam in particular is facing serious threat from the annual floods. The species was once abundant in a huge area from Afghanistan along the Gangetic belt of India upto Sadiya, including Bangladesh. Due to indiscriminate killing as …
Guwahati: With Kaziranga National Park, home to the largest number of one-horned rhinos in the world, getting maximum attention for conservation and protection, poachers have shifted focus to Orang National Park in northern Assam. As this 78.82 sq km park faces a shortage of manpower and equipment, poachers have managed …
MANGALDAI, June 21: The Orang National Park (ONP) authorities promptly swung into action following the killing of a full grown female rhino in the evening of June 20 and arrested two hard-core poachers at Jakhalabandha in Nagaon district, at a distance of about 140 km from ONP, while they were …
GOLAGHAT, June 18: The Bongaigaon sector of the Sahastra Seema Bal (SSB) under the ministry of Home Affairs has been engaged in intensive patrolling conducted by the SSb to guard the Indo-Bhutan International border and their hard work has paid off as a huge quantity of ganja, a rhino horn …
The population of one-horned rhinoceros in the famous Kaziranga National Park (KNP) in Assam has registered a considerable increase as per the latest census carried out by the Assam Forest and Wildlife Department with the help of experts from different wildlife NGOs. An official source in the national park, a …
