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.
The identity of the two girls---believed to have been raped and kill in Azara seems to have surfaced. Two families have rushed to Azara police station to identify the bodies of the two girls who have been missing from Bidyapur in Bongaigaon from October 22. The names of the two girls are believed to be Jonali Rabha and Dalimi Boro.One more heldPolice have picked up one more youth in connection with the Azara case where two unidentified girls were gangraped and murdered in the outskirt of the Guwahati city. The youth was picked up from his home near the Borjhar airport.Interrogation is going on in Azara police station and later he is likely to be taken to the Panbazar police station for...
Guwahati police on Friday afternoon brought the four accused in the Azara case to the Panbazar police to intensify the probe into it. They were brought to the police station after a priliminary medical. Marathon interrogation is going on. All of them would be produced before the chief judicial magistrate seeking police remand. According to source, the accused confessed to have gangraped the two girls at a house on October 22.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi will ensure speedy probe into the Azara case to be tried in the fast track court. Talking to reporters in Delhi on Friday, Gogoi said that he would ask the authority to expedite the probe into the case where two girls were gangraped before being killed in Azara. Gogoi said that he would arrive in Guwahati to keep the process on track. Before that Gogoi held a crucial meeting with ministers Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma, Akon Bora and Rockybul Hussain at the Assam Bhawan in Delhi.
Assam BJP will go it alone in the forticoming Lok Sabha polls. Talking to reporters on Friday state unit president Sarbananda Sonowal said that the party has no dearth of strength to fight the polls. He categorically denied any move to forge poll pact with AGP. The party is all set to finetune the poll candidates in all the 14 constituencies.
Violent protest broke out in Azara as the angry local residents on Friday clashed with policemen who resorted to lathicharge to disperse the mob. As policemen started beating up the people, a section of the protesters pelted stones at the policemen. The protestors alleged that the police have been trying to call it an accident. A section of media people has been injured in the violent protest.
Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday accused of running nefarious cartel of meat, fish and onion across the state. Talking to reporters in Guwahati, state unit president Sarbananda Sonowal said that the Congress government has been patronizing the cartel. He said that these cartels were responsible for soaring onion prices. He further dared the government to take action against these cartel runners.
Tension prevails in Azara after police recovered two bodies of unidentified girls from J ogipara who were raped and murdered on October 22 midnight. The situation started simmering as soon police tried to justify it a case of car accident. Local residents in large number refused to leave the police station premise alleging that the police officials are taking the side of the culprits. Someone among the irate mob set on fire the WagoneR seized in this connection. Guwahati MP Bijoya Chakrabortty visited the police station and asked the police office to efficiently deal with the crime. She further asked the agitated people to remain calm.
Two person were killed and two others have been injured in a road mishap in Jorhat district on Friday. The mishap took place early in the morning on the National Highway at Koliapani when a speeding dumper knocked down four persons who were walking. Two died on the spot while two others including a minor boy have been injured. The deceased were identified as Shiva Kurmi and Madhab Gogoi. The dumper managed to flee from the spot.
Rhino poaching refuses to halt in Kaziranga. Poachers have killed yet another rhino in the famed Kaziranga National Park. The incident took place on Thursday night at the Burhapahar range. Hearing sounds of shooting forest gaurds launched an operation where an encounter took place. The poachers were believed to have left the spot even after killing a full grown rhino. The body was spotted at a water body in the wee hours. The horn was found intact. With this, the total number of rhinos killed in Kaziranga has gone up to 35.
Yet another gruesome twin murder case sent anger and shockwave across the state where two girls were raped and murdered near the Borjhar airport. The entire sensational case came to light when police interrogated the driver and owner of a car after it was found abandoned near the railline. After marathan interrogation, the driver confessed that he along two others killed two girls and the bodies were broght in the vehicle to be dumped at a waterbody beside of the rail line. One semi naked body was found on Thursday while the another was found in the hours on Friday. Those arrested include Nripen Das, Kishore Das....drivers and the owner of the vehicle Gopal Barman.
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