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.
In a major boost for BJP workers, prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will campaign in the state on March 27.During his day long visit to the state, the Gujarat Chief Minister is scheduled to attend three huge rallies in Dibrugarh, Jorhat and Lakhimpur.This would be his third visit to the state after he was nominated as the prime ministerial candidate.
The AGP has yet to finalise the candidate for Mongoldoi seat in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.The opposition party has already announced the candidate for Jorhat, Nagaon, Koliabor, Lakhimpur and Dibrugarh seats.
AIUDF has not announced the second list of candidates on Saturday for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.The party on Saturday morning decided to announce the names of the polls candidates in Silchar, Tezpur, Koliabor, Lakhimpur. But that has not happened.“We would announce the second list of the candidates very soon,” party leaders told Assam Times.The party is believed to have finalized Dr Parvez Ali Ahmed in Silchar, Mani Kumar Subba in Tezpur, Vijay Tiru in Koliabor.
KMSS on Saturday made it plain and simple that under no circumstances, they would halt their agitation for the landless lot.Addressing a press conference in Guwahati, officials of the organization said that they would fight for land for the farmers in the forest and water bodies.They further said that they would intensify their demands for arrest of Chief minister and the revenue minister at a huge rally in Guwahati this months.
APCC president Bhubneswar Kalita downplayed the NDTV opinion poll saying that these are not true.Talking to reporters in the sidelines of a function in Guwahati on Saturday, Kalita said that each of the elections are some challenges and that it is not easy to win an election.It assumes significance two days after NDTV opinion predicts absolute majority for NDA and the poll suggest clean sweep for Congress.
Railway police foiled a nefarious blueprint of a car bomb explosion when they seized a huge consignment of explosives in Paltanbazar on Saturday.Acting on a tip off, railway police in Paltanbazar picked up three persons from a train and seized these explosives from their possession.During interrogation, they are believed to have confessed that these explosives were meant for NDFB-S to be exploded a powerful car bomb. Interrogation is in progress.
Tension is simmering near Diphu after a group of people clashed with police at Matipung forest on Saturday.The incident took place when over 100 landless people were trying to occupy a plot of land earlier Congress leader and Diphu candidate Biren Singh Ingty received from the government.Police resorted to blank firing to disperse the local residents immediately after they locked in a clash with the illegal settlers.Then senior police and civil officials arrived in the spot and the situation was brought under control.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has asked his party men not to repose any faith on the opinion polls.In his response to a question posed by Apurba Bhattacharya in the video conference at Rajiv Bhawan in Guwahati on Saturday, Gandhi said that these predictions are not true.Gandhi’s response to the APCC leader assumes significance two days after NDTV opinion predicts absolute majority for NDA and the poll suggest clean sweep for Congress.
BJP is likely to avoid Koliabor constituency in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.State party leadership think it necessary to check further division of non Congress votes in the crucial seat where chief minister Tarun Gogoi’s son is in the fray. Central leadership prepared a panel of three contenders. But the state leadership on Friday suggested the high command not to field any candidate where AGP candidate Dr Arun Sarma is set to extract the mileage.
Dispur police arrested Akhil Gogoi in a fresh case on Saturday before the court of chief judicial magistrate in Kamrup had sent the KMSS president to the jail.Gogoi was produced before the CJM court in the morning where he was remanded to judicial custody for yet another period of 14 days.Gogoi has been languishing in jail from March 5 after five days in police custody in connection with the self immolation of a KMSS activist. The Gauhati High Court on March 19 will hear his bail petition in three other cases.
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