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.
The Centre is takingserious note of the rhino poaching cases in the Kaziranga National Park. This was what Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal told reporters after holding a huge convention of the party in the national park on Friday.
He said that Union forest and environment minister Prakash Javadekar would soon visit the wolrd heritage site now riddled by repeated rhino poaching incidents.
Sonowal further said that he would take up rhino poaching and immigration issue of the national park in the soon to be held cabinet meeting.
He further said a high level probe would unearth the truth adding that if proved no minister, forest officer would be spared.
Union minister for sports and youth welfare Sarbananda Sonowal on Friday instructed the Kaziranga national park authorties to firmly deal with the rhino poaching cases.
Sonowal’s instruction came up when the Union minister held a crucial meet with Chief conservator of forest, Kaziranga national park authorities along with Golaghat and Nagaon deputy commissioners.
He said that the Centre won’t allow the rhinos to be poached in the national parks and sanctuaries.
BJP’s huge convention ended in Kaziranga on Friday with a pledge to go all out to woo the people.
Addressing a press conference in Kaziranga at the end of the day long event, Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal said that the Centre is aware of the real issues including rhino poaching and illegal infiltration from across the border.
According to him, Union home minister Rajnath Singh is very keen to visit the state to know the problem.
He further said that the partymen would further reach all sections of the people to know their pulse which, he said, would help the party get absolute majority in the 2016 asembly polls.
Attended by the newly elected MPs and MLAs along with the...
BJP leaders are pouring in at Kohora in Kaziranga to attend the huge convention on Saturday to discuss the party’s strategy to wrest power from Congress in a phase manner.
Senior party leaders told Assam Times that the party’s first and foremost work is to formulate strategies to win three seats in the bye elections in Silchar, Jamunamukh and Lakhipur.
The convetion is expected to discuss these strategies in detail apart from the mov to elect a new leader to replace Sarbannda Sonowal who recently took over as Union minister.
On the other hand, a section of party leaders are set to take up the issue of the various civic body elections who have been put on hold for months. ...
State BJP unit is hoding a huge convention in Kaziranga on Saturday to formally unveil the party’s mission 84.
The mission aims at wresting power from Congress with 84 seats in the 2016 assembly polls.
To be opened by Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal who is also the BJP’s state preisdent, the meeting is set to go all out against Congress to woo the voters.
Apart from the seven newly elected MPs along with 4 MLAs, several district level party leaders have arrived in the convention site to join the event.
Come Monday. Guwahati is gearing up for the eastern regional roundtable conference on child rights.
Organizers told Assam Times that sponsored by the NCPCR, UNICEF, ILO and ASCPCR, the event would take place at the Assam Administrative Staff College in Khanapara where senior ministers, government officials and child rights activists are expected to participate.
The conference, fist of its kind in the state will have a panel discussion on the challenge of child labour.
Hardly a forthnight after his party’s deplorable show in the Lok Sabha polls, chief minister Tarun Gogoi has instructed the officials to expedite the process to udate NRC.
Gogoi passed his strict instructions to the officials when he reviewed the progress of the project at his Koinadhara residence on Friday.
In a separate order, the chief minister has appointed Justice (Retd) PK Mushahary as the chairman of the police accountability commission .
Gogoi further appointed Shivabrata Kakoti and Parul Devi as the members of the commission.
The three member AICC panel set up to deal with the simmering dissidence in Congress has asked the Pro-Gogoi camp to maintain party discipline.
The instruction came up when a six member delegation backing Gogoi as chief minister called on Ghulam Nabi Azad at his residence in New Delhi in presence of Dr CP Joshi in New Delhi on Friday evening.
Azad further asked the delegation not to go all out against their dissident colleagues for the greater inteterst of the party. The AICC leader further asked them to ensure commandable performance in the 2016 assembly polls.
Comprising ministers Rockybul Hussian, Pradyut Bordoloi along with MLAs Anjn Dutta, Debobrata Saikia and Sushanta...
The body of Satya Das was fund in Panbazar on Friday . company went missing from his home.
Lifeless Das was recovered on the bank of the river Brahmaputra just behind the Deputy Commissioner’s office in the evening.
His purse, ATM card and mobile phone were also recovered from the spot. There was no injury mark on the which was sent for postmortem. Police investigation is going no.
Das went missing from his residence in Kharhguli hilltop on May 27. Search operation was continuing after his family members filed a complaint with the police.
The Assam Higher Secondary Education Council on Friday declared the results of the HS science examinations conducted across the state in February.
Rupasmita Devi from Pragjyotish Junior College in Titabor steals the march this year in science stream examination this year to be followed by Kritarha Kashyap from Sankardev Academy in Nalbari.
The third position has gone to Sukanya Ghosh from the Salt Brook Academy in Dibrugarh.
Ashwini Burahgohain shares from the same school has shared the fourth position with Swarup Nath from Cotton College in Guwahati, Wasfia Majida from Salt Brook Academy in Dibrugarh and Arindom Koushik Bora from Ramanujan Junior College in Nagaon.
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