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.
KMSS president Akhil Gogoi’s role in the death of Pranab Boro seems to have raised doubt. Senior journalist has moved Dispur police station with a complaint against Gogoi charging him with instigating KMSS fellows for self immolation attempt.Dispur police have registered a case against Gogoi on the basis of the FIR filed by Sanjeev Goswami.
Amid seismic wave of shock and reaction after Pramod Boro’s death in self immolation attempt, the KMSS activist’s wife Purnima Boro blames it all on Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and his revenue minister Prithivi Majhi for the tragic episode.Hours after her husband’s death, Boro, the mother of 2 daughters on Monday filed and FIR against Tarun Gogoi charging the Chief Minister with fuelling the situation where Pramod Bodo had to make self immolation attempt.
Its official. Pramod Boro is dead. The socking news has come from GMCH where the KMSS activist breathed his last at 4-20 in the afternoon five hours after he was rushed from Dispur following serious burn injuries.Immediately after he was rushed to GMCH, the authorities provided him with best possible treatment. But of no avail.He died a hard death in the afternoon five hours after he set himself on fire in Dispur in protest against the land patta distribution function at the Sankardev Kalakhetra.The forty five year old man from Gorchuk area in Guwahati was a carpenter by profession and joined the KMSS eight years ago.
A ray of respite for the Guwahatians. The cable operators have called off strike slated for Tuesday.The decision was taken after power minister assured them that he would positively look into their demands. The association would meet again on March 6 where they are expected to take a decision on the next course of action.Much to the worries of the poll bound Congress, cable operators announced black out on Tuesday when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi would be on a two days visit to the state.
KMSS activists in large number blocked the roads in many places across the state hours after one of their fellows sustained serious burn injury for self immolation attempts in Dispur on Monday.As the news started spreading like wildfire on the television screen, the protesters took to the streets saying that they would intensify the agitation for land pattas for the landless lot.The blocked has resulted in massive traffic snarls in the national highways causing much inconvenience for the HSLC and HS examination along with the common people.
KMSS president Akhil Gogoi blamed it all on the Government for the injury of Pramode Boro who attempted self immolation in Dispur opposing the land patta distribution on Monday.Talking to reporters at GMCH premises after visiting Bodo, Gogoi said that the government should have listen to KMSS. “We expected that the government would not allow this to happen. But they did finally,” he said.He further urged his fellows not to take resort to self immolation adding that the entire episode is a conspiracy by chief minister Tarun Gogoi, who thinks only of the Lok Sabha polls and not the common people.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday made it plain and simple that the government won’t allow anybody to occupy forest land and water bodies.In his address at the land patta distribution function at Sankardev Kalakhetra, Gogoi said that the government is committed to provide land for the landless and that it does not mean that all lands are free for these people.His comment assumes significance when KMSS has been agitating for lands in the hills and water bodies.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday called the self immolation attempt an unfortunate.Talking to reporters in the sidelines of the land patta distribution function at Sankardev Kalakhetra in the morning Gogoi said that the incident was an unfortunate. Gogoi found it difficult to understand what forced KMSS to prevent the land patta distribution among the landless people.
A KMSS activist is battling for life at GMCH after he made an abortive self immolation attempt in Dispur opposing land patta distribution in Guwahati on Monday.According to GMCH authorities, identified as Pranab Boro from Gorchuk area in the city is undergoing treatment after he was rushed to it with 100 per cent burn injuries. His condition is critical.The incident took place at 10-30 in the morning in front of the State Secretariat where Boro set himself on fire after pouring kerosene as part of the massive agitation on land pattas for the land less lot in the city.
Akhil Gogoi seems to have landed in trouble. Kamrup (Metro) district administration is believed to have been prepared to arrest the KMSS president charging him with fuelling the situation where one of his activists sustained serious burn injury for self-immolation attempt.According to allegations, Gogoi has been preparing the blueprint of the dangerous agitation for the last couple of days. That’s why, Gogoi can’t escape the responsibility.Notably, Gogoi earlier threatened the government to launched a Pothoru-Ghat like episode in the history of Assam if the government fails to halt the land patta distribution.
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