Order of the High Court of Tripura in the matter of Court on its own motion Vs The Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare & Others dated 09/01/2025. The HC was informed that National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) has granted approval for establishing two new Facility-integrated ART Centres (Fi-ARTC) …
Karbis script conservation history Jorhat, May 8: A Karbi village is about to script history by relocating for the sake of elephants. Ram Terang village, comprising 19 families, is expected to shift to a new location by the end of this year. This extraordinary gesture, followed by the relocation of …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Pradip Kumar Agarwalla (Proprietor of M/s Assam Brick Craft) Vs Rohit Choudhary & Ors on quarrying and mining activity in Kaziranga dated 09/05/2013.
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 …
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 …
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 …
GUWAHATI: The Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) has completed 10 years of working in Assam. It has now decided to introduce two annual scholarships for young journalists interested in working for environment conservation and wildlife protection. It will also give an annual award for best news story/photograph/documentary on wildlife protection …
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 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 …
