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 …
BY SANJEEB BARUAH NEW DELHI The removal of the one-horned rhinoceros by an international NGO from its endangered species list will not affect the animals in Assam
MANGALDAI, Oct 13: The organized armed gang of rhino poachers operating in the Orang National Park(ONP) taking the advantage of the recent incident of violence where all the security personnel have been engaged has again started their poaching operation which has been resulted from the killing of an adult rhino …
The Kaziranga National Park, the last home of the highly endangered one-horned rhinoceros, is facing a peculiar phenomenon: while a considerably large number of rhinos are dying due to old age, tigers are also contributing their own way by killing at least 20 rhino calves every year. This year, for …
JALPAIGURI: Two rhinos, which had strayed into human habitation from the Gorumara reserve forest in West Bengal, on Sunday returned to their natural habitat thanks to the effort of forest officials. District Forest Officer Tapan Das said a female rhino and its calf strayed from the Gorumara Reserve forest on …
South Asia's endangered Great One-horned Rhinoceros is being driven out of its natural habitat in search of food into the hands of illegal poachers, experts said on Thursday. A meeting of the Asian Rhino Specialist Group in Nepal said that the massive animal's feeding grounds were being invaded by "exotic …
From our Correspondent MANGALDAI, September 14: Several militant outfits operating in the state being unable to continue their extortion drive has diverted their target on the poaching of the highly endangered species of one horned rhinos only to strengthen their fund and this has been come to the light following …
DIBRUGARH, Sept 11: The future of the government plan to move a few rhinos from Kaziranga National Park to other areas will be decided after animal experts ascertain the causes which made a translocated animal to move out of its new habitat. A male rhino, which was tranquillized and moved …
Guwahati: After poachers, floods have turned out to be a major killer of one-horned rhinos at the famed Kaziranga National Park, a world heritage site located on the southern banks of the Brahmaputra in Assam. Altogether 168 rhinos have died due to floods between 1974 and 2007. During the period, …
Samudra Gupta Kashyap Guwahati, September 2: Brahmaputra has already submerged 60 per cent of Kaziranga National Park. However, thanks to the efforts of the conservation and protection staff and volunteers, the world-famous rhino habitat has been able to put up a brave fight against floods.
NAGAON, July 31: "Although 35 Rhino have been killed by the poachers since March 31, 2006 to 2008 yet Rhino population in Asom have increased to 1,855 as per the census done in the year 2006, ' Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain said. The Minister also said that in the meantime …
In their continued intensified operation against the alarmingly increasing incidents of poaching of one-horned rhinos in Orang National Park (ONP), the joint effort of the police and the ONP authority have resulted the arrest of two hardcore rhino poachers and recovery of a 303 rifle from their possession. As reported, …
In yet another incident of suspected poaching at Kaziranga National Park, the carcass of a full-grown rhinoceros was recovered near a water body at Agaratoli range this morning. The horn of the rhino, which is suspected to have died three to four days back, was missing. There are allegations that …
Seven one-horned rhinos of the ten that died inside Bardiya National Park (BNP) in the past 10 months were killed by poachers, raising serious concern over the very survival of these endangered species, reports Kantipur Daily. The remaining three rhinos had died due to natural causes, according to Fadindra Kharel, …
Poaching in the Himalayas is taking a heavy toll on the population of the endangered one-horned rhinoceros in Nepal, a wildlife official said on Sunday. There were 31 rhinoceros in the jungles of Bardiya National Park located in Nepal's southwestern plains last year of which nine have gone missing, park …
Hidden cameras in the jungles of Indonesia's Java island have captured rare footage of the world's most threatened rhino, boosting efforts to save it from extinction, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF),, said on Thursday. ' Two camera traps set up by the environmental group in the remote Ujung …
The NRIs (Assamese) in USA who have expressed deep concern on the increasing incidents of rhino poaching in Assam, have been preparing a white paper on the sensitive issue, disclosed Rajen Barua, the chief office-bearer of the Friends of Assam & Seven Sisters (FASS). Barua also emphasized the necessity for …
Authorities in India's remote northeast said they were increasing security in the world's biggest reserve for the endangered great one-horned rhinoceros to save them from poachers. Poachers have killed at least 10 rhinos in two national parks in Assam state since January, eight of them at the Kaziranga National Park. …
