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.
A full scale combing operation is going on in the trouble torn BTAD areas after 36 people lost their lives in a string of attacks on the religious people.But there is no report of any notable success.Army, police and para military forces have cordoned off a huge area in worst-hit Salbari, Gossaigaon, Kokrajhar and Narayanpuri areas in search of the miscreants who have been mongering trouble for the last couple of days.Indo-Bhutan border has been sealed to restrict the movement of the NDFB-S militants apart from the round-the-clock vigil along the Kokrajhar-Dhubri inter district border. A parallel operation is also in progress to seize the illegal arms in the entire BTAD areas....
In a bizarre incident, local residents in an interior area in Dhubri district lynched a miscreant on its way to attack a political leader.The incident took place at Patakata in South Samara sub division on Monday morning where local residents caught three armed youths as they were trying to attack a local leader.One of the armed youths died on the spot while two others, who are in police custody, have been battling for life in the hospital.
A four member is on a stock-taking visit to the BTAD areas on Monday.Consisting of top ranked officials of the investigation agency, the team is set to tour the entire trouble torn spots in BTAD areas to assess the ground situation.The agency would broaden the ambit of the probe in the later stage. After collecting the initial inputs from the civil and army officials deployed in the BTAD areas, the NIA officials would leave back for New Delhi.NIA on Friday agreed to probe the cases of BTAD violence after the chief minister recommended the probe./
Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha said on Monday that the move for allowing arms to the villagers in the name of self defence would result in a disaster.Talking to reporters in New Delhi, the former Union finance minister said that infusion of arms among the villagers would create nothing but civil war.He further said that the government has been failing to firmly deal with the situation and that’s why, it is a move to surrender before the trouble mongers by allowing arms among the villagers.
The Assam Government will not allow any arms for the BTAD villagers. This was what chief minister Tarun Gogoi told reporters in Dispur on Monday.Talking to reporter, Gogoi said that he has already rejected a proposal he received on Sunday for allowing arms to villagers in BTAD areas to face the miscreants.Forest minister who has been closely monitoring the situation proposed arms among the villagers in some BTAD areas for self defence. /
Caught in a barrage of criticism, Chief minister on Monday ordered a judicial probe into the BTAD violence.Gogoi has asked Chief Secretary JS Khosla to proceed for setting up a commission of a judge to probe the allegations of lapses resulting in the violence where 36 people were killed in three days.According to Gogoi, NIA would indict the culprits while the judicial commission will study the allegations of inaction and lapses.
Its confirm. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi will visit the BTAD areas on Wednesday.Disclosing this Chief Minister’s Office told Assam Tines that Gogoi would be on a day long visit to the trouble torn areas on Wednesday.During his stock-taking visit, the Chief Minister is scheduled to visit the refugee camps.Apart from it, Gogoi would review the overall law and order situation in the violence-hit areas with senior police, army and para military officials. /
Repeated rhino poaching incidents seem to have riddled the Kaziranga National Park. Despite round-the-clock vigil, poachers have killed yet another rhino on Sunday.The incident took place at Bordolini under Bagori range where the forest guards spotted the carcass of a hornless female rhino on Monday morning.With this, the world heritage site has lost 18 rhinos during this this year. In May alone, the poachers have killed 2 rhinos for horns.
Simmering tension refuses to die down along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border in Sonitpur district. The epicenter is again the Chauldhuwa area in Bihali.A group of IRBN personnel from the neighbouring state disallowed a team of Assam forest officials to set up a camp in Chauldhuwa even within the territory of Assam.This could again lead to yet another incident of attack on Assamese people by the Arunachalese miscreants.
In a stepped up counter insurgency operation, security forces claimed to have killed a hardcore NDFB-S militant at an encounter in Udalguri district on Sunday.The encounter took place at Bhoiraguri with police and army where the hardcore militant was killed on the spot.Before that on Sunday morning three dreaded NDFD-S militants were killed in a four hour long fierce gun battle in Sonitpur district bordering Arunachal Pradesh.
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