Order of the Gauhati High Court in the matter of In Re-Dima Hasao Tragedy Vs The Chief Secretary, Assam & Others dated 28/01/2025. Pursuant to the order passed by the Gauhati High Court dated January 27, 2025, the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition was being registered. The matter related to …
The flood situation in Assam continued to remain grim today with over four lakh people affected by the overflowing Brahmaputra and its tributaries in 13 districts with the rhino habitats Kaziranga National Park and Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuaries inundated. At least 600 villages were affected in the districts of Bongaigaon, Barpeta, …
Barely five days after a rhino was killed on August 30, Kaziranga National Park lost another rhino to the poachers on Wednesday. The poachers killed the rhino in the Bagori forest range and decamped with its horn. The park officials, however, managed to foil another rhino poaching attempt near Burapahar …
In a unique gesture to end man-animal conflict, villagers living along an elephant corridor in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district will relocate their homes to give a passage to jumbos. Ram Terang village in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district, lies in the middle of a main elephant corridor through which several wild …
The first wave of floods in Assam has claimed one life, affected nearly 68,000 people, submerged rhino habitats at Kaziranga and Pobitora and overrun vast tracks of human habitation and farm land. A 12-year old boy was dragged away by the high current of the Brahmaputra at Jengpuri village in …
Kaziranga: Flood waters have entered Kaziranga National Park forcing animals to take shelter on highlands and Park authorities are on alert to protect the wildlife from deluge and poachers. The flood waters have entered Burapahar and Bagori ranges of the world heritage site in upper Assam forcing the animals there …
It is a gesture of a tribal village in Karbi Anglong hill district of Assam that is bound to be considered as a milestone in the conservation of elephants in the country. “To help secure a migration corridor for elephants in North-East India and thereby reducing the number of human-elephant …
Guwahati, May 23: Minority-dominated Dhubri district has recorded the highest population growth rate in Assam while Kokrajhar has recorded the lowest, according to the 2011 census, the final findings of which were released today. Assam ranks 14th in the country in terms of population. While Assam recorded a population growth …
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, …
GUWAHATI: As a special case, the Government of India has sanctioned Rs 161 crore for constructing roads in Assam with 250 and above inhabitants under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY). “In other parts of the country, roads are built under PMGSY in areas with a population of 500 …
September 22 is World Rhino Day. At sanctuaries across the globe, the species wallow in royal treatment to mark the occasion. At the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, however, it is death and destruction for the one-horned rhinoceros. From September 22 to 25, at least seven rhinos were killed as …
KOHORA, Oct 10 – Union Environment and Forest Minister Jayanthi Natarajan today made an on-the-spot assessment of the impact of floods on the Kaziranga National Park cum Tiger Reserve and announced a slew of measures to augment security there. Natarajan was accompanied there by Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi. Addressing mediapersons …
Union Environment and Forests Minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Wednesday announced a fund of Rs 1 crore for the infrastructural development of Kaziranga National Park’s (KNP) tiger reserve area. She also assured 24-hour security arrangements in KNP for protection of wildlife, providing nine speed boats and a battery-powered aircraft. Natarajan, accompanied …
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests had forewarned the State Government and the Forest Department to be on the guard against another wave of devastating floods in Kaziranga National Park and keep itself fully prepared (including Army deployment) against such an eventuality but the State authorities totally disregarded the …
The death of 39 rhinos in and around the world-famous Kaziranga National Park in less than 10 months has brought to the fore the threat faced by the endangered animal. The threat comes from poachers, who kill the rare one-horned rhinoceros for its prized horn whose price in the international …
Guwahati: Days after Assam’s Kaziranga National Park hit the headlines following a spate in poaching of the one-horned rhinos, the Assam government has decided to rush a 100-member team of the elite Assam Forest Protection Force (AFPF) for the protection of the rare animal. Assam Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain Tuesday …
GUWAHATI, Sept 30 – Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said that the Government would set up anti-poaching camps in areas outside Kaziranga National Park, especially on the hilly stretches of the nearby Karbi Anglong forests where wildlife from Kaziranga invariably take shelter during the annual floods. Gogoi also announced that …
Two rhinos fleeing the flood-hit Kaziranga park were shot at by poachers Thursday, leading to the death of one rhino. The incident, third in two days, prompted Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi to hand over the probe into rhino killings in the past three years to the CBI. The state …
KAZIRANGA, Sept 26 – A female rhinoceros was left bleeding after poachers sawed off its horn and cut off a part of its right ear after shooting it, while the carcass of another with its horn removed was found today at the Kaziranga National Park. The female rhinoceros had strayed …
DONKAMOKAM: Sensation prevailed in and around Boithalangso area in west Karbi Anglong when people found burned oil flowing along the Barapani River. Soon the news of oil spilling started spreading the entire area where Boithalangso Police necessitated to alert and warn not to throw any burning chemicals into the river. …
