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) …
There are estimated to be 2,400 one-horned rhinos, out of a global population of 3,300, at the park in Assam A rhino was killed by poachers in India's Kaziranga national park on the same day the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge toured the sanctuary. The adult male rhino was shot …
The seven-day India-Bhutan tour of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Princess Catherine, which commenced with their arrival in Mumbai on Sunday, will conclude in spring-awash Kaziranga with the promise of a grand fund-raiser and an elephant parade next year in India to save the elephant. The …
Rhino has become a major election issue in Assam this time. It is the precious one-horned rhinoceros that stands out in Assam’s wildlife protection areas, especially Kaziranga National Park. With unabated poaching of the endangered animal becoming a cause for concern among the Assamese, political parties of all hues have …
GUWAHATI: Assam's Orang national park, a postcard-size protected area about 150 km from here, has been declared as the tiger reserve, taking a step forward in long term big cat conservation in Assam. The state government though its February 24 notification has given the final approval for according Orang national …
JORHAT: Third rhino has been killed by poachers in last 40 days in Kaziranga National Park of Assam, a senior forest official said on Tuesday. The poachers killed the female adult rhino in the early hours on Monday on the westernmost side of Bagori, divisional forest officer of the Unesco-declared …
Jorhat/Guwahati: Assam's Kaziranga National Park has lost two rhinos to poachers in four days. With this, the number of rhinos killed this month has risen to three. One rhino was killed and de-horned by poachers near Tunikati anti-poaching camp under the park's Burapahar forest range at 1am on Wednesday and …
GUWAHATI: Kaziranga National Park, a Unesco world heritage site about 250km from here, lost its second rhino to poachers in two weeks on the first month of new year. The latest rhino was poached on Sunday, taking the toll to two this year so far. The killing took place near …
There are different categories of activists- some are selfless and voluntary in their activism, while others love to do the act of activism for the sake of earning their ‘minute of fame’ in the arc-lights. Manoj Gogoi of Kaziranga, who is a selfless wildlife rescue and rehabilitation volunteer, fits the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rohit Choudhury Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 16/12/2015 regarding obstruction of Upper Dihing East Elephant Corridor by building a golf course, Kaziranga National Park, Assam. Mr. Samardit Sharma is present before the Tribunal and he submits that he …
The National Green Tribunal today refused to stay its order restraining Numaligarh Refinery Limited from carrying out any construction activity in the no-development zone in Kaziranga National Park in Assam. “This project must be held up. We are ready to expedite the hearing in the case,” a bench headed by …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rohit Choudhury Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 08/12/2015 regarding a golf course site developed by the Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) which falls within the Upper Dihing East Elephant Corridor which is the right of way of animals, Kaziranga …
The tribunal has also asked about the steps taken by the State of Assam to prevent animal deaths on roads caused due to vehicular traffic The sad state of affairs at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, where animals continue to become victims of poaching, commercial activities and vehicular traffic, …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Rohit Choudhury Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 26/11/2015 regarding commercial/ construction activity which are coming up within 10 KM of the boundary of the Kaziranga National Park.
With large-scale hotels in and around the world heritage site of Kaziranga National Park (KNP) posing a threat to wildlife, especially the one-horned rhinoceros, the National Green Tribunal has sought to know how such activities came to be permitted by the State government. The Tribunal has summoned the Secretary, Department …
Poachers managed to kill another rhino at Kaziranga, a world heritage site about 250 km from here, on Sunday, barely a week after the national park was opened to visitors. Kaziranga divisional forest officer S K Seal Sarma said the poachers were, however, unable to take away the horn, following …
The National Green Tribunal has slammed Assam government for delay in preparing a project report on measures to curb growing wildlife casualties due to vehicular movement on the national highway passing through the Kaziranga National Park. The green panel took exception to the fact that it had directed the state …
GUWAHATI: Conservationists have hit upon a novel plan to monitor the movement of wildlife from their natural habitat in the Kaziranga National Park to nearby human habitations during flood. The Wildlife Trust of India and the Elephant Family, two environmental organisations, have engaged young volunteers from nearby villages to monitor …
Many elephants get electrocuted by low-slung overhead electric cables before authorities take action On the night of 4 September, a large tusker was electrocuted by a sagging high tension electric cable in Kaziranga national park, Assam. Two large bull elephants emerged from flooded Kaziranga to reach high ground across the …
The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA)'s rhino task force has suggested that the CBI should be given the mandate to investigate, suo motu, those cases of rhino poaching in which the horn of the animal is not found within two days of the crime being committed unless intelligence inputs confirm …
Like other crimes, rampant rhino poaching in the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) is also a product of poor governance and weak institutional structures, observed the Rhino Task Force constituted by the Union Environment and Forest Ministry to study the problem of rhino poaching in the KNP. The Task Force has …
