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.
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.
Security forces recovered two more bodies from two different places in Baksa district on Sunday. with this the death toll in the BTAD violence has gone up to 36 during the last 40 hours.Border area development minister Siddique Ahmed has visited the Govardhana village in Naraynpuri where the people agreed to bury the bodies of the victims on Sunday.BJP leader Bijoya Chakrabarty said that chief minister Tarun Gogoi has no moral courage to visit the areas.
Yet another dreaded NDFB-S militant was killed in the five hour long encounter with army and police in Sonitpur district on Sunday.The incident took place at Paharpur area in Rangapara bordering Arunachal Pradesh in the wee hours.The encounter is learnt to have taken place when NDFB-S militants lobbed a grenade at an army patrolling vehicle in the area. Two militants were killed in the wee hours while yet another was killed at 10 in the morning. More security forces have been deployed along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border in the district.Army and police officials held a crucial meeting in Tezpur on Saturday to strengthen patrolling in view of the BTAD violence.
The BTAD violence toll has gone up to 34 with the recovery of yet another body on Sunday.Local residents recovered an unidentified body of a woman in Beki river at Manipuri basti area in the morning.The toll reached 33 with the death of a two year old girl at GMCH on Saturday evening. But it has gone up to 34 with the recovery of the body on Sunday.But 22 other people are still remaining clueless after the militant attack at Nonke Khagrabari village in Salbari sub division.
Two dreaded NDFB-S militants were believed to have been killed at an encounter with army and police in Sonitpur district on Sunday.The incident took place at Paharpur area in Rangapara bordering Arunachal Pradesh in the wee hours.The encounter is learnt to have taken place when NDFB-S militants lobbed a grenade at an army patrolling vehicle in the area.The army vehicle was partially damaged in the attack forcing police and army to retaliate with firing where two militants died on the spot.Army and police officials held a crucial meeting in Tezpur on Saturday to strengthen patrolling in view of the BTAD violence.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Sunday said that the BTAD situation is under control.Talking to Sonia Gandhi over telephone in the morning, Gogoi apprised the Congress president of the preparedness to firmly deal with the situation in the trouble torn areas.The UPA chairperson called up Gogoi assuring him of all help from the Centre to improve the situation at an earlier date.Notably, 33 people were killed, 23 have been remaining traceless apart from injury of 30 others in a string of attacks on minority people./
The overall situation in BTAD areas remained normal. There is no report of any untoward incident during the last 12 hours.Over 500 people in Narayanguri have come for shelter at a local school to be heavily guarded by the security forces.But people from five villages in Baska district are believed to have fled to Dhubri seeking safety and security.Army, police and para military forces are on round the clock patrolling in the streets in Kokrajhar, Chirang and Baksa to thwart any move of the miscreants who have killed at least 33 people in a string of attacks on minority people.Top ranked civil and police officials along with a ministers have been closely monitoring the situation in the BTAD...
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