Affidavit filed by the Chief Wildlife Warden, Assam in the matter of news item titled "the last feral horses in India" appearing in Mongabay, November 5, 2024. The matter relates to the critically endangered status of feral horses in the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park as well as of smuggling of these …
The Assam government has set up a committee to ascertain the feasibility of the trimming horns of translocated and stray rhinoceros in the state. The committee has invited opinion from environmentalists and activists on the pros and cons of trimming of horns as an experimental measure to help save translocated …
The Assam government's move to explore trimming of horns to save rhinos from poaching was opposed by an environmental activist body which said it will affect biological growth of the animal and the risk from poachers will continue. "The horn of a rhino is a part of its biological growth. …
The killing of seven rhinos in the state within a span of a month-and-a-half has proved once again that poachers can still strike the one-horned pachyderm at will and almost with impunity. Of the seven rhinos killed since January this year, six were from Kaziranga National Park alone and one …
GUWAHATI: About 100 frontline forest staff of Manas National Park will be trained by the Wildlife Trust of India, in association with the Assam forest department and the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), in wildlife crime prevention. The first batch of 32 staff began their training on Sunday. BTC deputy chief …
Assam will set up four wildlife police stations to exclusively deal with the problem of rhino poaching and other wildlife crimes. The jurisdiction of these special police stations would be over the Kazairanga National Park, the Manas National Park, the Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park and the Pabitora Wildlife Sanctuary. …
Two rhinos—a mother and a calf—were killed by poachers in Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park, about 150 km from here, on Saturday evening. The poachers chopped off the horn of one of the animals. Forest officials said that the poachers gunned down the rhinos at the Hajar Bigha area after …
Perturbed over the rampant killing of rhinos in Assam, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi wondered that if the government could bring militancy under control, why not the poachers! He said that laws would be made more deterrent against poachers in the coming days. “We will bring in harsher laws against poachers,” …
Concerned over growing incidents of poaching of rhinos, five Asian rhino range nations in a resolution asked India to take measures, including increased level of security to wildlife parks, to protect the vulnerable species from extinction. At the meeting of the five countries — Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Nepal …
Researchers from the Northeast have found that the population of clouded leopards and common leopards in Manas National Park are increasing and its density is comparable to other parks. The study, Abundance and density estimates for common leopard and clouded leopard in Manas National Park, Assam, was carried out by …
Here is the story of a man who started as a poacher, but the risks involved in illegal hunting and the helplessness of innocent animals turned him into a conservationist. Maheswar Basumatary was forced into poaching animals in the 90s when as a 19-year-old he faced the daunting prospect of …
Days after the successful translocation of old rhino calf Purabi, around one year old, from Kaziranga to Manas, the Assam forest department in collaboration with the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) is contemplating to translocate five more rhino calves by end of this year. For the first time the Assam …
’’We have been rescuing rhino calves at Kaziranga in various circumstances and most of them are now successfully hand raised at the CWRC. At due course of time, all these calves go back to the wilderness again’’ A female rhino calf – Purabi – on Friday was translocated to Manash …
Guwahati: One more translocated rhino was poached in Manas National Park in western Assam bordering Bhutan Himalayas. Forest officials informed that the poachers cut away the horn of the animal after killing it in Kahitema Beat of Bansbari Range of the Park on Tuesday. It happened to be fourth translocated …
Guwahati: One more translocated rhino was poached in Manas National Park in western Assam bordering Bhutan Himalayas. Forest officials informed that the poachers cut away the horn of the animal after killing it in Kahitema Beat of Bansbari Range of the Park on Tuesday. It happened to be fourth translocated …
Rhinos in Assam are back in the cross-hairs of poachers. Following a lull of hardly a month towards the end of 2012, the poachers have returned to Kaziranga National Park, gunning down seven rhinos in the current year. That makes it one rhino killed every week there alone. And two …
The Rhino Task Force set up by the state government to improve security in rhino inhabited areas of the state has reaffirmed its target to attain 3,000 wild rhinos by 2020 in the face of the ongoing killing of rhinos for their horns in the state by poachers. The total …
After a lot of flip-flops, the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) has once again agreed "in principle" to take over the service of water supply from the public health engineering department. Senior MCG officials still maintain that there is still nothing on paper, clearly indicating that they are not very …
Assam, famed for its national parks and wildlife sanctuaries, faced one of its worst years in wildlife management as it lost an estimated 800 animals, including one-horned rhinos, during 2012. Among the positives in the wildlife sector was a healthy population of Royal Bengal Tiger in Kaziranga National Park with …
The century-old one-horned Asiatic rhino habitat in Terai Arc is turning into rehabilitation zone for the threatened species. Enthused by the success of the first phase of the Rhino Reintroduction Programme in Dudhwa Tiger Reserve, the second phase is in the offing covering a bigger area than used in the …
Enumeration of wild elephants has been carried out in the State like the enumeration of rhinos and tigers. But enumeration of wild elephants is different from that of rhinos and tigers. Rhinos or tigers live in a specific location like Kaziranga NP, Manas NP or Orang NP. But wild elephants …
