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) …
GUWAHATI: Pertinent development project proposals came up for discussion at the crucial sixth meeting of the State Board for Wildlife, Assam (SBWL) held in Guwahati. In this meeting, the Board was apprised of all the initiatives taken by the Assam Government for improving wildlife protection in the State. The Board …
NUMALIGARH: With a view to providing a proper home to butterflies in the unique Butterfly Valley in Golaghat district, especially the endangered varieties, the North East Institute of Science and Technology is trying to locate and nurture plants there on which they breed. The valley is situated inside the Numaligarh …
Shrinking animal habitat a prime reason for animals to stray into human settlements GUWAHATI: The committee formed by the Assam Government to come up with suggestions to deal with the man-animal conflict in the State submitted its report to State Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain on Tuesday. The committee, headed by …
GUWAHATI: A census of one-horned rhinos at the renowned Kaziranga National Park (KNP) in Assam recorded an increase of almost 250 animals over a three-year period. The last census in 2009 recorded 2,048 rhinos in KNP, of which eight were trans-located to Manas National Park. The two-day-long census, which ended …
GUWAHATI: Assam has reason to cheer. A census of one-horned rhinos at the renowned Kaziranga National Park (KNP) recorded an increase of 242 animals over a three-year period. This was disclosed by State Forest and Environment Minister Rockybul Hussain today. The last census in 2009 recorded 2,048 rhinos in KNP, …
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today laid the foundation stone of the Assam Integrated Flood and River Erosion Risk Management Project at Jahirpur village in Gumi. The Rs 172.35 crore project at Gumi is funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). After laying the foundation stone for the project, Gogoi …
Jahirpur (Kamrup), April 9: Five thousand faces, which have watched the Brahmaputra eat away their home and hearth for the past 50 years, today stood on the river bank applauding chief minister Tarun Gogoi as he launched a flood and anti-erosion project which will probably be the largest in the …
Rhino counting will start on Saturday at Kaziranga National Park, home to about two-thirds of the world population of the endangered one-horned rhinoceros. The quadrennial census will take two days, will be supervised by senior Assam wildlife wardens, and will involve nearly 300 people from various non-governmental organisations. The park …
Guwahati: Assam has recorded a remarkable growth in its elephant population, according to the recently concluded elephant census in the state. The elephant census this year recorded a total of 5,620 elephants in Assam compared to 5,246 elephants in the 2009 census year, state Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain said and …
GUWAHATI: The anti-talks faction of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) has raised concern over the state of the conservation of one-horned Indian rhinoceros, the crowning jewel of the wildlife resources in Assam. Turning wildlife conservationist for a change , the anti-talk faction of United Liberation Front of …
Guwahati: An Assam-based wildlife conservation group has questioned the legality behind the Assam forest department’s recent move of ‘dehorning’ a one-horned rhino. “Nature’s Beckon”, a leading wildlife conser-vation group of Assam on Sunday not only questioned the legalities of ‘dehorning’ the rhino but also demanded an inquiry into the whole …
Guwahati, March 20: The Pobitora forest authorities will request the state government to conduct research to help them know how many rhinos Pobitora wildlife sanctuary can accommodate without overcrowding. Spread across an area of 38.8 square km the rhino habitat, however, is confined to a mere 16 square km area …
A set of motion-sensitive cameras fitted with automatic sensors that was part of the ongoing tiger census inside the Kaziranga National Park recorded two poachers early this morning, once again bringing to light the vulnerability of the one-horned rhinoceros there. “While our forest guards heard two gun-shots in the early …
GUWAHATI, March 18 – Expressing grave concern over the unabated destruction of the State’s forests and the resultant loss of biodiversity and damage to the environment, public activist Prof Deven Dutta has stated that the Kaziranga-centric model of conservation pursued by the State Government was spelling doom for a vast …
Jorhat, March 14: The forest department has shelved the plan to use kunkis (trained elephants) to chase three rhinos back to Kaziranga National Park from Jorhat following objections from Kaziranga authorities. The national park authorities fear that such a move might make the rhinos aggressive and lead to human casualties, …
Guwahati, March 11: Assam forest authorities are optimistic that they will be able to have a rhino population of 3,000 in the state by 2020. For Indian Rhino Vision 2020 to meet its goal of 3,000 rhinos, Assam’s rhino population will have to increase by about 80 animals over the …
Fighting the elephant menace with a small electric bulb may appear strange to many, but it has become a reality in over 2,000 villages in Assam affected by the man-animal conflict where it is common to see elephant herds destroying crops, damaging houses and attacking people. According to villagers, electrification …
DERGAON, March 6 – Though the State Government as well as the Forest Department claim to have achieved success in conservation of wildlife, the ground reality tells a different story. The Government has also stated that it has taken steps for the uplift of the Kaziranga National Park (KNP), a …
The Assam forest department has set up a team of wildlife experts to look into the frequent incidents of leopard straying into the residential locality of Guwahati and claimed that the tiger population is increasing in Assam. Informing that Assam may have the highest number of tigers soon, Assam forest …
A grand procession of trained elephants will trail a rhino family in Jorhat all for the noble cause of herding the wayward trio back to the safety of Kaziranga National Park. The forest department has hit upon the plan to use kunkis (trained elephants) to chase the animals, which had …
