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 Assam Government has recommended NIA probe into the BTAD violence where at least 33 people were killed.Talking to reporters after the cabinet meeting in Dispur, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said that this is a fit case for NIA probe.Gogoi said that his government has sought extra forces from the Centre apart from Cobra forces to firmly deal with the situation.
Senior citizens in Guwahati have alleged a nefarious political conspiracy behind the bloodbath in BTAD where at least 33 people lost their lives during the last 36 hours.After holding a meeting at the Guwahati Press Club, noted intellectual Dr Hiren Gohain said that the authority has straightly blamed it all on NDFB-S. But, according to Dr Gohain, it was not convincing.Attended by Left veteran Hemen Das, Professor Akhil Ranjan Dutta, senior journalist Nitya Bora, the meeting appealed to all section of the societies to remain calm in this hour of crisis.
Security forces deployed in BTAD areas have picked up 22 people in this connection with the orgy of paralyzing violence.Of them, 14 have been picked up in Baksa while 8 others have been apprehended in Kokrajhar during the last 12 hours.These include a forest ranger who was believed to have involved in the attack on the minority people.More and more security forces seem to have arrived in Kokrajhar, Chirang, Gossaigaon to deal with the situation. Senior minister Nilomoni Sendeka is on a stock-taking visit to Kokrajhar and Baksa on Saturday.Army, police and para military forces have been patrolling on the streets to thwart any bid to monger trouble in the nook and corner of the BTAD...
NDFB-S on Saturday made it plain and simple that the ongoing bloodbath in BTAD areas was not their handiwork.In an audio message to media, the outfit alleged a third party role in the gruesome chapter where over 33 people lost their lives in Kokrahar and Baska districts.The Bodo militant outfit further blamed the role of the government for failing to ensure safety and security of the people in the BTAD areas.Notably, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and DGP Khgen Sarma on Friday blamed it all on NDFB-S fo the blooodshed in the Bodo belt.
Senior minister Siddique has blamed it all on BPF for the ongoing murder and mayhem in BTAD.Ahmed who has arrived in Guwahati after his stock taking visit to the troubled torn districts told reporters that the entire chapter is political. Quoting the affected people as saying the minister said that they also called it a handiwork of BPF.Siddique further said that BPF leader Pramila Rani Brahma should be arrested apart from severing alliance with BPF.
In a major setback for Assam’s health sector, the Medical Council of India has cancelled the recognition to two of the newly set up medical colleges.Reliable sources have told Assam Times that MCI took the drastic steps on April 16 on the basis of the fact finding reports its team deputed to the Jorhat Medical College and Barpeta Medical College in March.According to sources, the MCI team in its report mentioned poor infrascture in both the medical colleges apart from lack of professors and staff. This has left the fate over 300 students in utter uncertainty.
Yet another rhino was killed for horn in Kaziranga. The incident took place near the Demow-Aarimora camp in Agoratoli range of the national park.Forest guards on Friday recovered the hornless carcass in the evening hours after minister Rockybul Hussain held a public meeting seeking their help get rid of the poachers.With this, poachers have killed 17 rhinos in this year.
The death toll in Chennai blast on Thursday has gone up to four. One more passenger in the ill fated Guwahati-bound train succumbed to injury on Friday.On the other hand, two of the four deceased hailed from Assam.Identified as Biren Das and his wife Sonia Das, the couple from Dhemaji district was on their way to Guwahati in the Bangaluru Express where the explosion took place at Coach No S-5 and S-4.
KMSS on Friday asked chief minister Tarun Gogoi to quit alleging his failure as home minister a day after 12 people lost their lives in militant attack in BTAD areas.Addressing a press conference in Guwahati, the peasant body president said that the government has prior inputs on the incidents of violence and that it remained idle.He further asked BTAD chief Hgrama Mohilary to quit for failing to ensure safety and security of the people.Gogoi said that only a thorough probe by CBI and NIA would be able to unearth the truth behind these orgy of murder and mayhem.Later KMSS took out a procession in protest against the BTAD incidents.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday blamed it all on NDFB-S militants for the fresh orgy of violence in BTAD areas where 12 people were killed and 15 others have been injured during the last 24 hours.Addressing a press conference in Guwahati after reviewing the law and order situation with top ranked civil and police officials, Gogoi said that the government would firmly deal with the militants involved in the attacks.He said that army and additional para military forces are arriving in the troubled torn areas to bring the situation under control.
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