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.
Two more heavyweights filed nomination papers in Jorhat on Wednesday.The first candidate to have filed nomination papers was BK Handique to be followed by Pradeep Hazarika in the afternoon.Accompanied by a cultural troupe, the AGP candidate filed nomination papers before the returning officer in Jorhat DC office premises. Hazarika said that the voters have realized that AGP is the only option left with them.Then came Drupod Buragohain to file nomination papers to contest from this constituency.The CPI candidate arrived in the DC office premises with hundreds of his supporters who said that the people should allow the CPI to serve them. Polling with take place on April 7.
A severe hailstorm lashed parts of Guwahati disrupting normal life in the city on Wednesday.Accompanied by thunder, the hailstorm began at 4-30 in the afternoon to be continued for almost half an hour. Officer goers found it a harrowing time to return to their homes defying the inclement weather that drenched several parts of the city.
In a sensational revelation, Tezpur Congress candidate Bhupen Bora said that he has been facing threat to life.Talking to reporters in Tezpur after filing his nomination papers on Wednesday, Bora said that NDFB-S militants have been targeting him forcing the authority to strengthen security for him.According to him, he along with two other senior Congress leaders have been facing the threat.
Lakhimpur Congress candidate Ranee Narah on Wednesday kickstarted poll campaign claiming that she has no nearest rival in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.After arriving in Lakhimpur, thousands of party workers greeted her and started poll campaign. Talking to reporters, the Union minister said that she was confident of her victory as there is hardly any nearest rival for her in Lakhimpur.Narah left Guwahati only on Wednesday to kickstart the poll campaign. But the party legislators, mostly, were conspicuous by their absence in the campaign.
Tezpur Congress candidate Bhupen Bora on Wednesday filed nomination for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls slated for April 7.Accompanied by senior party leaders, Bora field his nomination papers before the returning officer at 11-30 in the morning in Tezpur.Before that Bora was taken in a procession participated by thousands of his supporters who said that Bora would win the polls with flying colours.
The Gauhati High Court on Wednesday rejected a petition seeking interim bail for Kamal Medhi after police booked him in the recent self immolation case in Dispur.A division bench of the court rejected the anticipatory bail plea when came up for hearing on Wednesday. The KMSS general secretary has been absconding from March 1 after police arrested Akhil Gogoi along with 6 others in the sensational case.The CJM court earlier rejected his interim bail plea when moved after Akhil Gogoi was remanded to judicial custody.
Despite stepped up vigil rhino poachers continue to strike in Kaziranga.Poachers have in this national park killed yet another rhino on Wednesday. The incident took place at Kohora range of the world heritage site where the carcass was found. With this, the number of rhino poaching cases has crossed 17 during the last two and a half months.
In a major relief for Akhil Gogoi, the Gauhati High Court on Wednesday granted bail to the KMSS president in the recent self immolation case in Dispur.Gogoi received the breather when the a division bench of the high court took up the bail petition moved after the CJM court rejected it and remanded Gogoi to judicial custody a couple of weeks ago.But Gogoi would not be able to come out of the jail as he has yet to procure bail in some other crucial cases.
Jorhat Congress candidate Bijoy Krishna Handique filed his nomination papers on Wednesday.Flanked by senior party leaders, the fourth time MP filed his nomination before the returning officer at 11-30 in the morning.Earlier, Congress workers took Handique to the DC office premises in Jorhat with a procession.
Akhil Gogoi will have to spend in jail till March 28. The court of Kamrup Chief Judicial Magistrate has extended the KMSS president’s judicial custody for another period of 14 days after he was produced before the court on Wednesday.Earlier, amid tight security Gogoi was produced before the court of chief judicial magistrate in Guwahati on Wednesday nearly 20 days after he was arrested in connection with the self immolation case.
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