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) …
Large-scale encroachment, aging guards, defective weapons, zero conviction of poachers are bane of KNP The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) had found loopholes in the management plans in Kaziranga National Park which have been abetting poaching activities in the Unesco World Heritage Site. “Deficiencies in funding adversely affected …
Rhino population in Kaziranga National Park has registered an increase of 72 even as 54 pachyderms were poached at the world heritage site since 2013. According to the latest rhino census,the animal population has been estimated to be 2,401 in Kaziranga National Park (KNP) while the figure was 2,329 after …
Jorhat: The rhino census in Kaziranga National Park will begin with a four-day programme from March 24. Divisional forest officer (Kaziranga) S K Seal Sharma said, "The census will start on March 24 in all the five ranges — Kohora, Bagori, Burapahar, Agoratoli and Biswanath Ghat — and the reports …
NEW DELHI, March 17 – Admitting that rhino poaching in the Kaziranga National Park is a big problem, Union Environment and Forest Minister Prakash Javadekar said the government has taken a slew of pro-active measures, disclosing that a comprehensive Bill amending the Wildlife Protection Act is being introduced in the …
Assam government has told the National Green Tribunal that it is taking steps to curb increasing wildlife casualties due to vehicular movement on National Highway 37 in Kaziranga National Park. The submission came in an affidavit placed before the Tribunal in the wake of increasing animal fatalities in the national …
Assam Forest Minister Atuwa Munda decided to ignore an urgent summons from Assam Governor PB Acharya to meet him at the Raj Bhavan here yesterday citing prior engagement, but the director of Kaziranga National Park (KNP) MK Yadava had to rush to the Raj Bhavan to face the ire of …
Assam governor P.B. Acharya here on Sunday asked the state forest minister to submit report in writing on failure of his department in stopping the rampant killing of precious one-horn rhino in Kaziranga National Park. Expressing his deep anguish over the killing of sixth rhino in Kaziranga National Park on …
The National Green Tribunal has ordered a ban on roadside shops and eateries along the animal corridors near Assam’s Kaziranga Natio-nal Park among a slew of directions in the wake of increasing wildlife casualties due to vehicular movement on the adjacent highway. Taking exception to the state’s failure to address …
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said a Rhino Protection Force with more than 1,200 personnel would be raised to protect one-horned rhinoceros against poachers. Besides, the National Investigation Agency’s (NIA) help would be sought to bust the international rhino-poaching racket. Attending a review meeting on the anti-poaching measures and other …
The protection force will have more than 1,200 personnel In a move to strengthen conservation efforts of the one-horned rhinoceros at Kaziranga National Park (KNP) in Assam, the state government has decided to soon raise a special protection force, termed as 'Rhino Protection Force', to keep vigil in the famed …
The all-India tiger estimation report has put the total number of tigers in the Northeast at 201, a significant increase from 148 recorded in the 2010 count. Of the 167 tigers counted in Assam, more than 125 are believed to be at the Kaziranga National Park, which is great news …
In a first of its kind exercise, India has conducted economic valuation of six of its tiger reserves and placed their value at Rs 1,49,900 crore. The study has also noted that these six reserves have been generating annual monetary benefits worth Rs 7,970 crore. The six tiger reserves which …
CBI sleuths, probing poaching of rhinos in Assam (especially in the Kaziranga National Park), suspect that Northeast-based insurgent outfit Karbi People’s Liberation Tigers is actively involved in the barbaric act. It is suspected that members of the outfit — equipped with modern weaponry like mortars, AK-47, AK-56 and M20 guns …
Within days of the year’s first killing of a rhino at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, carcasses of two more rhinos have been found, their horns sawed off, authorities said on Sunday. On Jan 9, the poachers killed a one-horned rhino in Dhing in Nagaon district and escaped with …
The ambitious India Rhino Vision 2020 (IRV2020) is heading in the right direction and there is no reason to doubt its success so far, said AC Das, Director of the Manas National Park cum Tiger Project. Talking to this Correspondent in his office chamber this afternoon, Das said though news …
A rhino was killed by poachers in Kaziranga in the first case of poaching this year in the Unesco World Heritage Site. The incident took place near the Kathalsang camp of the Burapahar range of the park. Forest officials said the male adult rhino is believed to have been killed …
The new route will increase the distance between Kaliabor and Numaligarh by 95 km Assam government today approved a four–lane highway that will bypass Kaziranga National Park, days after the National Green Tribunal imposed restriction on movement of heavy commercial vehicles on the stretch of NH 37 that passes through …
Guwahati: On completion of his two-day ‘Mission Kaziranga’ visit, Union Minister of State (Independent) for Environment and Forest, Prakash Javadekar Saturday said here, “There will be zero tolerance to rhino poaching from now onwards in respect of Kaziranga National Park and other wildlife protection areas and a task force to …
The industrial units located in the eco-sensitive zone of Kaziranga National Park (KNP) have been operating in clear violation of the legal provisions and the government authorities concerned have also failed to take any actions against these units despite there being written complaints, alleged environment and RTI activist Rohit Choudhury. …
