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.
A circle of Congress legislators have been camping to blacken the poll prospect of MP Ranee Narah amid specualtions of resurfacing dissidence in Congress legislative body.Legislators Balin Chetia, Abu Taher Bepari along with a few others have arrived in New Delhi on Friday. They are set to meet the powerful AICC leaders to prevent the Union minister from getting ticket for upcoming Lok Sabha polls this time.They are believed to have been trying to target a few other close associates of Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.
Despite strict vigil, Guwahati runs the risk of witnessing more trouble when the city is teeming with a section militants who can foment trouble at any moment.City police have arrested a Prepak militant on Friday evening and seized from incriminating documents from his possession.
Security forces claimed to have arrested a hardcore NDFB(S) militant in Barpeta district on Friday.The militant was captured during a combing operation by police and CRPF at Pathsala in the evening. An AK-47 rifle along with some incriminating materials were recovered from him.
KMSS is up in arms against the Tarun Gogoi government alleging defective land patta distribution in Guwahati slated for February 24.The peasant body has made it clear that they would go all out against the Rahul Gandhi’s two days trip to Assam if the government fails to clear the land pattas for all the genuine beneficiaries by February 24.The reaction came after revenue minister Prithvi Majhi said that out of 62,000, only 500 people are set to get land pattas in Guwahati.
Bodoland demand seems to have sharpened when NDFB(P), ABSU and BNC mounted pressure on the Centre to create Bodoland in the line of the Telengana state.In a series of tripartite talks the Bodo organizations categorically told reporters in New Delhi on Friday that they won’t rest until and unless the separate Bodoland is created.The tripartite meeting, however, resolve to end the problem by talks.
Amid simmering crisis, the Asom Gana Parishad held its executive committee meeting on Friday in Guwahati to discuss the Lok Sabha poll.Presided over by Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, the failed to arrive at a consensus on the upcoming general election. Former president Chandra Mohan Patowary, who is set to join BJP, was conspicuous by his absence.Several other disappointed top leaders came out of the meeting. The regional party is scheduled to prepare the list of candidates on Saturday.
The ministerial group set up to study the formation of new districts and sub division discussed the entire subject at a meeting in Dispur on Friday.The meeting thoroughly discussed the proposals for creation of ten new districts and 46 sub divisions in the state.
A hostage managed to escape from the NDFB-S camp in Bhutan 19 days after he was kidnapped from Kokrajhar.According to information, the local resident of Lilabari in Lakhimpur was kidnapped on February 5 when he was on a visit to Kokrajhar with one of him friend.After holding him hostage, the Bodo militant outfit demanded Rs 1 crore for his release. The family members, however, could not pay the ransom. But under mysterious circumstances, he managed to escape from the captivity.
Silchar turns into a security fortress a day before Narendra Modi’s huge rally.Top police officials along with their Gujarat counterparts are constantly monitoring the massive arrangements for the rally where the state BJP pins hopes on presence of over 2 lakh people.Maximum security forces are guarding the rally site beside the ISBT where the BJP prime ministerial candidate is scheduled to address the rally.The Gujarat Chief Minister is scheduled to land in Dibrugarh at 11 in the morning. Then he would leave for Pasigaht in Arunachal Pradesh to address a rally.He would attend the rally in Silchar at 1-30 in the afternoon.
Three dreaded GNLA militants were killed at an encounter with security forces in Goalpara district on Friday.The encounter took place at Krishnai along the Assam-Meghalaya border where the trio were killed on the spot. Security forces are fanning in and around the area in search of the Garo militants who have been spreading terror tentacles in the entire area in the form of extortion and abduction.
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