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.
Customs officials and the West Bengal police have so far arrested 52 foreign tourists hours after they seized 22 satellite phones from a hotel in New Jalpaiguri on Saturday.According to information, these phones were seized from two foreign nationals---one from UK and another from Belgium.On the basis of their confessional statements, police further arrested 50 more foreign tourists from the New Jalpaiguri town.
Customs officials seized altogether 22 satellite phones from two foreign nationals in Jalpaiguri bordering Assam on Saturday.According to information, the phones were seized from a hotel during a raid in the afternoon. Two foreign nationals –one from UK and another from Belgium were arrested after recovering the satellite phones from their possession. Interrogation is in progress.
Sensation prevails in Amguri area when local residents in a tea garden recovered an unidentified body on Saturday.According to information, the female body was spotted from the workers of the Haluwating Tea garden at a drain. When informed police came and recovered the body. Body has been sent for post mortem.
Narendra Modi’s speech in the Khanapara rally seems to have drawn mixed response form the political parties.Senior BJP leaders have called it an illuminating. But Congress, Left and AGP leaders have found nothing notable in the 50 minute long speech by the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate.Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi told reporters in Sivasagar that this speech might pull hug crowd. But it was not the key to woo the voters.AGP leaders told Assam Times that the Gujarat Chief Minister hardly touch a few burning issues confronting the state for decades.The Left camp equally is not comfortable with the speech. Talking to Assam Times, a Left leader said that Congress and BJP are two side of a...
Startling facts seem to have surfaced on the naked dharna in Dispur on Saturday alleging horse trading by the Congress and BPF.Sources alleged it a conspiracy to foil the Narendra Modi’s rally in Khanapara.Those behind the conspiracy allegedly tried to divert the media attention from the BJP rally to the naked protest. The protesters were not prominent KMSS leaders to stage dharna against the horse trading in the Rajya Sa bha polls.Dispur police have already detained them for staging the naked protest in front of the state secretariat on Saturday.
AIUDF has come in for sharp criticism for Haidor Hussain’s defeat in the Rajya Sabha polls on Friday.A section of the AGP leaders called it a conspiracy of AIUDF president Badaruddin Ajmal to clear the passage of the Congress and BPF.Another circle of BJP leaders told Assam Times that Ajmal has a very good relations with the Congress leaders in Delhi and he was deployed to help Assam Congress win the three seats in the upper House.
AGP activists in large number staged protest in Nagaon demanding stern action against Padma Hazarika a day after the party suspended the legislator for intentionally got his vote cancelled in the Rajjya Sabha polls.The regional party workers thronged the party office in the town and burnt Hazarika’s the effigy demanding more stern action against the MLA alleging his conspiracy to lower the party image.
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After his 50 minute long fiery speech BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has left Guwahati on Saturday evening.Immediately after completing his speech, accompanied by senior party leaders the Gujarat Chief Minister left for Sarusajai to board on the helicopter which flown him from the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport.After arriving at the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport, he left for Chennai to attend another public rally.
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Saturday deplored that lack of vision and an able leadership have been preventing Assam from developing on all fronts.Addressing a huge rally in Guwahati, the Gujarat Chief Minister said that tea industry is an energy booster, tourism industry is full of potential. But the state has been lagging behind.“Had there been an able leadership, the face of Assam would have chaged long ago,” said Modi.He said, “Vajpayee government gave the state a huge Rs 40,000 crore package. We would give more if we are voted to power.”
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