Despite being riddled by unstoppable poaching incidents, the KazirangaNational Park gets a rare dose of good news.
There has been considerable increase in the rhino population in the world heritage site. During the last two years the rhino population figure has gone up to 2,400 which suggests increase of 71 one horn animal.
The park authorities released the figure n Saturday after the end of the two days census operation.
The figure was on expected line as the authorities earlier hoped that it figure be encouraging.
“We began the census operation on Thursday which concluded on Friday. It is an exercise by the authorities which is conducted after a gap of three years,” KNP officials told Assam Times.
In 2012, the national park had 2290 rhinos. The repeated incidents of poaching forced the state government to conduct a special census which also suggested rise in the rhino population. The figure stood at 2,329.
According to the census figure, Kaziranga has 1,651 adult rhinos along with 294 sub adults 251 and 205 calves.
The authorities divided the park into 81 blocks to conduct the two days census deploying 36 elephants involving over 200 forest officials, guards and NGO representatives.
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There are sustainable ways to use elephants,rhinos,and other large mammals to make money without killing them and/or destroying their habitat.GOOGLE this title for a solution being used(by a "paper" company) for the Asian Elephant and Indian Rhino-How to save rhinos? By turning their dung into paper. A possible solution I figured out is:The Real Large Mammal Medicine And Food-Cash CowsIt is not elephant tusks or rhino horn that have medicinal properties or miracle cures.However,there may actually be a real medicine as well as food source from rhinos and elephants and many other large herbivorous mammals in Africa like hippos,eland,cape buffalo,manatees and dugons-without killing them or destroying their habitat!It is their milk! One example was shown in “Durrell In Russia”about people in Russia raising eland for the milk and saying it was good for fighting diseases(I think the examples of diseases were yellow fever and tuberculoses).Therefore the milk from all mammals that are large enough to produce large amounts of milk should be milked for investigation of medicinal qualities like possible malaria immunity and help fight other tropical diseases that the animals in those areas are exposed to and are deadly to people.Of course the milk would probably be great for food products too and help make those animals benefit from high demand.Large herbivorous mammals in Asia could also benefit from high demand too by milking them for use for food products and medicinal properties.Some examples of food products made from and/or using milk are cheese,chocolate,cream,ice cream,mayonaise,butter et.The animals could be captured as mother and it’s young,milk the mother,then release them after milking.That should only be done with mothers that have young that are already eating solid food to avoid the young from not getting enough milk.That would not only make the animals “Cash Cows”without killing them,but also greatly encourage people to breed whatever animals they would be milking for the probable high price of wildlife milk to replace the high price of rhino horn and elephant tusk.Of course the milk used for food products should be tested for toxic plant residue since some animals may eat plants that are toxic to people.
Forest guards in Kaziranga claimed to have killed a rhino poacher at an encounter on Wednesday. But four others managed to flee from the spot.
The heavy gun battle took place near Gobrai forest camp where five poachers were believed to have been trying to kill a rhino on Tuesday midnight.
One of the poachers was killed while four others managed to escape from the spot. Operation is still going on to flush out the rhino poachers who have already killed over 20 rhinos so far this year.
Police on Tuesday claimed to have captured 6 UPLA militants responsible for killing of Nityananda Goswami and Ratul Nunisa who were killed at an encounter in Karbi Anglong district last week.
The UPLA militants including their deputy commander in chief Nikunj Kathar were captured during a combing operation inside the a dense jungle in the hills district bordering Meghalaya.
The huge operation was launched from Monday evening four days after the Karbi militants killed the Hamren SP Goswami and his PSO Ratul Nunisa at an encounter which created no less flutter across the state.
DGP Khagen Sarma along with top ranked officers have been closely monitoring the entire operation armed with over...
SDRF team finally rescued Manashi Rabha 5 hours after she fell into 40 feet deep well in Golapara district on Tuesday.
The college girl in Bapuji Nagar area was rescued at 8 in the morning after SDRF team launched the operation. Then she was rushed to the Goaplara Civil Hospital for treatment.
She remained trapped from 2 in the wee hours in a well after she slipped into it forcing the authority to deploy SDRF team to ensure her safe rescue.
Three minor boys were believed to have been met watery grave after they slipped into a stone quarry in Golaghat district on Monday. The incident took place at Bijuli Quarry in Bokakhat where the trio went to bath.
Suddenly , they slipped into the deep quarry where they could not come out of it. Rescue operation continued for several hours to fish the bodies to be identified as Bimal Ingty, Longri Ingty and Jinsang Taro.
President Pranab Mukherjee said on Monday that the Centre was firm on dealing with the infiltration issue.
In his address at Parliament, Mukherjee said that the Narendra Modi government will complete the process of Indo-Bangladesh border border fencing in Assam and the neighbouring north eastern states.
Notably, the prime minister in his recent cabinet meeting said that his government will be able to properly address immigration issue.
A pall of gloom descends in Amguri area in Sivasagar district when a local villager was believed to have been crushed to death by train on Monday.
Identified as Rongai Bora, the body of the carpenter by profession in Cheleng Kumargaon was found on the railway tracts in the morning. But how and when the incident took place is not known.
A villager was killed and another minor boy sustained injury when security forces guarding the NHPC project resorted to firing in Lakhimpur district on Sunday
The incident took place in the evening where identified as Madan Sarma, the local villager was shot dead while a minor boy identifiedas Imran Hussain sustained injury.
Imran later was shifted to the Lakhimpur Civil hospital for treatment. Details awaited.
The dissident Congress ministers and MLAs have again served 10 days ultimatum to the party leadership to hold CLP meeting to discuss the poll debacle.
After the end of an emergency meeting of the dissident camp at the official residence of Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma, the health minister said that the impasse in the political front should be addressed by the chief minister himself.
He, however, said that they would formaly send the memorandum to the party high command on Monday. Altogether 41 dissident MLAs and ministers attended the meeting followed by a feast on Sunday evening.
The dissident meeting and the feast evoked sharp reaction from a cross section of the people two days after...
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday evoked sharp criticism a day after Hamren SP Nityanand Goswami and his PSO Ratul Nunisa were killed at an encounter in Karbi Anglong district.
Talking to reporters, a cross section of the people came down heavily on Gogoi for refusing to quite to pave the way for a new one to take over.Goswami’s family members alleged that the PSOs have handed over Nityananda to the militants.
AIUDF president Badaruddin Ajmal said that Gogoi should immediately resign owning moral responsibilities . BJP also sharply criticized Gogoi for not resgning after his failure to deal with the situation.
Union minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju on Saturday asked chief minister Tarun Gogoi to strengthen the law and order machinery to ensure that militants are not allowed to monger any trouble.
Talking to reporters after his stock-taking meet with chief minister Tarun Gogoi in Dispur, Rijiju said that militant activities should not be tolerated and that Assam’s law and order break down would send a bad message from the north eastern region.
He said that the Centre would provide all assistance to the state government to deal with the situation.
Apart from the chief minister Gogoi, DGP Khagen Sarma and chief secretary JS Khusla were present in the meeting.
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