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.
Narendra Modi is believed to have inducted an Assam MP in his cabinet would are expected to take oath on Monday.
According to sources, state BJP president Sarbananda Sonowal has been inducted in the new council of ministers.
Sonowal, who ensured a huge successin in Assam apaprt from defeating Union minister Ranee Narah from Lakhimpur in the recent Lok Sabha polls are set to get a crucial portolio in the new council of ministers.
Meanwhile, all state BJP top leaders along with the newly elected MPs have been camping in the capital to attend the swearing in ceremony.
Chief miniser Tarun Gogoi is scheduled to attend Narendra Modi’s swearing in ceremony in New Delhi on Monday.
Gogoi will be among several other top Congress leaders and chief minister to attend the ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhawan.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi are alsoscheuled to attend the ceremony where President Pranab Mukherjee will administer oath to Modi as prime minister along with around 50 other ministers.
In yet another setback for the state’s aviation sector, the Indian Airlines will pull out of Tezpur and Jorhat within a few days.
According to sources, a team of the country’s premier domestic career has decided to stop its operation in Lakhimpur after the receipt of the assessment report prepared by a special team. The assessment of the Jorhat and Tezpur operations are underway to pave the way for the closure in Jorhat and Tezpur.
If it takes place, it will further result in the infrastructure bottleneck in the state where yawning communication gap has been a matter of concern.
The dissident Congress leaders skipped their visit to the governor after the AICC announced CLP meet by May 28 to sort out the difference.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi was believed to have told Sarat Borotoky that AICC would depute Motlal Vora to attend the CLP meet forcing them to halt for a few days.
Top AICC sources told Assam Times that Vora, Congress treasurer has yet to schedule his much-hyped fence-mending visit to Guwahati. It has become clear that the CLP meet is unlikley by May 31.
In a move that signalls a temporary ceasefire, a group of dissident ministers and MLAs is on a visit to Bihar. Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma, the front face of the dissident group is leading the 10...
Amid the height of dissidence, the ministers and MLAs camping in New Delhi to lobby for Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi have left the capital on Sunday.
The senior ministers including Rockybul Hussain, Pradyut Bodoloi, Nilomoni Sen Deka left the national capital after Gogoi asked them to go back to Guwahati.
Gogoi in a statement which is available to Assam Times made it clear that he had not invited anybody to New Delhi to lobby on his behalf.
The stages are set. The Assam Higher Secondary Education Council is all set to announce the results of the HS examinations on May 30.
The council told Assam Times that the results of the examination conducted in February and March thus year would be available for the 2,60,000 candidates acorss the state at 10 in the morning.
The results for arts, science and commerce streams would be available on www.ahsec.org from 10 in the morning. This is apart from the result booklets to be available for the schools and colleges in the district and sub divisional headquarters.
Notbly, the Board of Secondary Education, Assam will annunce the results of HSLC examinations on Wednesday...
Racial discrimination towards the north east people refuses to die down in New Delhi where the students from the region have been bearing the brunt.
In yet another case of racial discrimination in the capital, goons in New Delhi assaulted a Nagaland student at a court premises. The incident took place on Friday evening when the Naga student moved the Tis Hazari Court in protest against an incident on Thursday where a Naga girl was beaten up by the goons at a metro station in the capital. The North East Students association in New Delhi will chalk out a series of agitation to protest the recurrence of the incidents.
A sensational revelation seems to have generated no less heat within the Assam Congress these days. That too in the time of deepening dissidence within the Congress legislative body.
Trouble seems to have brewed for a former Union minister who is believed to have been harbouring dissident activities in the state. The former union minister is one among the twenty political leaders who are accused of holding account in foreign bank.
His name figures in a list submitted before the Supreme Court by senior leader Ram Jethmalani who charged him with stashing Rs 3,025 crores in foreign country.
The development assumes significance at a time when dissidence has paralyzed the Tarun Gogoi cabinet...
Four persons were killed at a tragic road mishap in Nagaon on Saturday. The accident took place when a vehicle carrying four persons collided its head on an ASTC passenger bus at Amguri in Kaliabor on the National Highway No 37 where the four passengers inside the Indica car were killed on the spot. They were identified as Prachurya Phukan, Latu Kalita, Mrinal Saikia.
A soon to be convened Congress legislature party meet will deal with the deepening dissidance drama within the party.
According to sources, AICC is all set to send an observer this week to read the pulse of the dissident MLAs and minister.
Sources said that the party high command has asked senior leader Motilal Vora as central observer with a hope that he would restore stability in the Congress legislature party.
This has forced the dissident lots remain silent till the CLP meet in Guwahati.
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