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.
Internal bickering seems to touched a new low within the poll bound Congress.Assembly Speaker Pranab Gogoi on Thursday called on party president Sonia Gandhi and apprised her of the state of affairs hardly a month ahead of the Lok Sabbha polls.Talking to reporters in New Delhi, Gogoi, whose son is a contender from Jorhat seat, said that he urged her to field competent candidate in the general polls.Significantly, he is understood to have told the high command that all was not well in the ruling party.He urged Gandhi that only the winnable candidates should be fielded in the polls.
In a bid to curb EVM tempering in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, the Election Commission has the state government employees not to deal with the EVMs in the polls.In an order, the country’s poll panel has said that Amtron employees are not entitled to deal with the EVMs.The Commission further has asked BCL and ECIL employees to check the EVMs.The Election Commission has passed the restrictions after it took serious cognizance of AGP president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta’s complaint that the Amtron emplyees might help the ruling party manipulate the voting machines.
Security forces claimed to have killed a hardcore NDFB-S militant at an encounter in Kokrajhar on Thursday.The incident took place at Aaodang bazar when two armed militants started indiscriminate firing at a joint team of police and army jawans.When retaliated with firing, one of the militants died on the spot while another sustained serious injury.Later police claimed to have seized three greandes, a bike and two mobile phones from the encounter site.
The death of a girl from Manipur inside a hotel room seems to have mired in utter mystery in Guwahati on Thursday.The incident took place at the Hotel Welcome in the Ulubari area where the girl from the Ukhrul district in the north eastern state has been lodging with a boy whom she falsely identified as her brother.But the boy who in fact, hails from Udalguri informed the hotel authorities that the girl was found hanging.The body was sent for post mortem. But the reason of the suicide has yet to be ascertained.
A full grown tigress continues to unleash a reign of terror in Guwahati these days.The epicenter is Kahilipara after three leopards were captured during the last couple of weeks.A police patrol team on Thursday spotted the tigress in Dotalruwa area in the foothills of the Narakashur hill.But the tigress managed to escape from the spot amid deepening darkness. Forest officials arrived in the spot. But they could not trace the tigress. According to the forest official, at least three leopards have been moving in the area in search of food.
Man elephant conflict refuses to die down. The victim this time is a couple in Dhemaji district.The shocking incident took place in Chechutoli on Thursday wee hours where a hard of wild elephants trampled to death a tribal couple. Further the elephants damaged their hut.
AICC poll panel is holding a close door meeting in New Delhi on Thursday to clear the list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.Earlier, the screening committee has prepared the list and sent to the party’s poll panel for approval.Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi is leaving for the capital on Thursday to attend the meeting.The list is expected to be announced on Monday or Tuesday.
BJP state unit’s poll panel is holding a close door meeting on Thursday to fine tune the list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls slated for April 7, 12 and 24.The poll panel meeting is taking place at an undisclosed location where the list would be cleared for all the 14 Lok Sabha constituencies.According to sources, president Sarbananda Sonowal will leave for New Delhi towards the evening to get the list approved by the party high command.
Finally, AASU has called off strike against Oil India Limited in Duliajan.But the respite is temporary as the student body lifted it in view of the large scale inconvenience of the common people who has been repeatedly asked AASU to do it.The decision was taken after the oil giant authorities agreed to talk to them on Saturday.AASU leaders told Assam Times that the 300 hour strike resulted in the state’s dimal power scenario due to marginalized power supply of gas by the oil giant to the thermal projects and Neepco projects.The strike was called by AASU in protest against the alleged anomalies in the recruitment of 300 unskilled workers. ...
Police are all set to produce Akhil Gogoi before court on Thursday four days after the KMSS president was arrested in connection with the recent self immolation case.According to sources, police will seek extension of Gogoi’s remand for two or three more days.Gogoi along with five others would be produce before the court in the afternoon.
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