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.
he definition of crime has expanded to various fields like child-trafficking and cyber crime, the police force needed to be trained to handle such cases, said Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.Talking to reporters in Guwahati on Saturday, Gogoi said that police are fully controlled insurgency compared to many state police.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi said that a task-force would be set up within a month to look into the modernisation of the police and to control terror incidents.Addressing a press conference in Guwahati, Gogoi said, “We are going to constitute a committee. It will be a task-force. It will deal with the issues of how to modernise the police and how to contain such incidents.” The task-force was likely to have members from various security agencies like police and army, besides prominent public figures.
Dispur has alerted all districts to keep a strict vigil, he accused the banned outfit of getting help from destabilizing peace and development in the state. The police have arrested four persons, including an ULFA cadre and three surrendered members of the outfit for the Lakhimpur incident. Another militant, who was tasked with carrying out a blast in Dibrugarh surrendered. Six persons were injured in a grenade blast at a busy market area in Bokolia town in Karbi Anglong district.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday reviewed the state’s overall law
and order situation in view of the recent bombing in Lakhimpur and
Karbi Anglong. He asked DGP JN Chaudhury to ensure that ULFA militant
cannot explode any bomb. Talking to reporters at Koinadhara, Chauhury
said that police forces would be on maximum alert till the
Independence Day.
Kamrup district administration has imposed section 144 of CrPC in the
district after state home department sounded high alert across the
state. ULFA militants had exploded two grenades at North Lakhimpur
town on July 23, where five people were injured.
A few disturbing inputs available with police forces the authorities
to keep Assam on alert.
According to IB inputs, a group of ULFA militants has arrived in the
state to monger trouble in the run up to the Independence Day. This is
apart from the fear of martyrs day on Saturday.
The Home department sounded high alert across the state following
three grenade explosions in Lakhimpur and Karbi Anglong district in
the past 36 hours, where two people were killed and 9 others injured.
A highly trained 35-member ULFA group is believed to have entered the
state at the instance of ULFA c-in-c Paresh Barua. Baruah asked them
to make grenade attacks in five districts of upper Assam and...
In view of the coming Independence Day celebrations in the country and
the attack on Bodh Gaya temple by suspected fundamentalist groups
earlier this month, an alert has been sounded at several international
airports in the country, including the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi
International Airport in Guwahati.
There is no specific terror threat looms over the airport. But police
and airport authorities don't want to take any chance and have beefed
up security measures at LGBI airport.
The Centre has cleared Rs 1 crore for each of the six Tribal
Autonomous Councils to build their office space, minister of state for
tribal affairs Ranee Narah said. All those councils are currently
running their secretariats from rented accommodations.
The councils which will now have their own offices are Tiwa Autonomous
Council at Marigaon, Rabha Autonomous Council at Goalpara, Deori
Autonomous Council at Lakhimpur, Mishing Autonomous Council at
Dhemaji, Thengal Kachari Autonomous Council at Titabor and Sonowal
Kachari Autonomous Council at Dibrugarh.
The South Central Railway will run nine special trains - eight between
Secunderabad and Guwahati and one from Aurangabad to Secunderabad to
clear passenger rush.
Secunderabad-Guwahati train will depart from Secunderabad at 7.30 am
on July 26, August 2, 9 and 16 (Fridays) and arrive in Guwahati at
7.55 am on the third day i.e Sundays.
In the return direction, the train will depart from Guwahati at 6 am
on July 29, August 5, 12 and 19 (Mondays) and arrive in Secunderabad
at 9.15 am on Wednesdays.
One person died and ten others have been injured when suspected ULFA
militants lobbed a powerful grenade at a busy market place in Bokolia
town of Karbi Anglong district on Wednesday.
The grenade exploded in front of a shop at 6.40 pm injuring ten
persons. The injured were admitted to a local hospital where the
condition of one person was stated to be serious. Nobody has owned up
responsibility. But police call it a handiwork of ULFA.
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