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.
Guwahati: Chennai based exert on Sri Lankan affairs, N Sathiya Moorthy will interact with Guwahati scribes tomorrow (Monday, 29 April) at 3 pm where he is expected to highlight the socio-political background of the island nation and also the implication of Colombo terror attacks for India as a whole.
A former journalist and presently a senior fellow & Chennai chapter director of Observer Research Foundation (www.orfonline.org), Sathiya Moorthy will be available to members of Guwahati Press Club through video-conferencing.
Sathiya Moorthy has developed expertise on Indian politics, elections, public affairs along with political affairs of Maldives and Sri Lanka. After writing...
Guwahati: Even after alliance with BJP, AGP founder president and former CM Prafulla Kumar Mahanta is targeting BJP president Amit Shah.
Mahanta, the 2 time CM is preparing to take Amit Shah to the Supreme Court for his recent announcement that Citizenship (Amendment) Bill would be enacted before completing NRC in the state.
Mahanta called it a case of contempt of court since NRC works are in progress at the instance of Supreme Court.
He would represent the family members of the Assam Agitation leaders who are least satisfied with Amit Shah's statement.
New Delhi: In a major setback for Tripura BJP, Niti Deb, the wife of chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb has moved a Delhi court with a divorce plea.
According to what she has alleged, Deb has alleged that she was the victim of domestic violence.
CNBC-TV18 reports suggested that Niti has moved the Tis Hazari court in Delhi and filed a divorce petition.
New Delhi: The BJP-led Assam government was left red faced in the Supreme Court when it apprised the top court of the move to free some of the detention camp inmates identified as immigrants 5 years back.
A division bench of the court presided over by CJI Ranjan Gogoi who took potshot at the government as it was hearing a petition alleging untold torture on the detention camp inmates.
Gogoi used a number of harsh words on Chief Secretary Alok Kumar and said he had no rights to continue his post. Then Kumar tendered apology before the court for making such proposal unheard of.
CJI further slammed the government for missing of 5 lakh identified illegal settlers and...
Guwahati: Finally state Congress has admitted the party's failure to make the Citizenship Bill in the Lok Sabha poll with full forces.
This was what former CM Tarun Gogoi said as he was addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Thursday.
Gogoi said they tried their best but it failed to reach the people in the grassroots level.
"We tried. But we could not concentrate only on it since many issues were on the store," said the former chief minister.
He further said that the pressure groups who organized the state wide protest could not help the issue reach the rural areas.
Many issues confronting the north eastern region have been left unnoticed amid the heat and dust of the recent electioneering much to the surprise of the knowledgeable circle.
Insurgency, flood and erosion, cross border influx missed the poll manifestoed released by both Congress and BJP.
"I don't understand why these parties are averse to make these poll issues. Both parties are responsible " said Bondita Sailor, a college teacher in Sivasagar.
"We have concentrated only on the principal issue which is none other than the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill. We won't allow it, " said HP Saikia, a Congress leader in Guwahati.
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Kokrajhar: A Bihu dance workshop was organsied at Rashmela field in Kokrajhar to impart dancing skills among performers in the area.
A good number of performers participated the workshop, which was organized by Kokrajhar Rongmon Bihuwa group.
Bisuwa Utsov and Rongali Bihu is being organizing at Rashmela field beginning from April in Kokrajhar.
Guwahati: The gate-keeping role of traditional media has been questioned by observers, despite the advent of social media where everyone has a say but there is little credible analysis. Reacting to the recent controversy over NaMo TV, the Electronic Media Forum Assam (EMFA) has urged news channels in particular to introspect whether they too are facing a major credibility challenge.
The forum, in a statement issued today, posed the question whether common viewers are turning to raw news rather than interpretative news content aired by recognized news channels. If the answer is yes, it could mean professional journalists are being rendered irrelevant as news consumers prefer 'unedited'...
Guwahati: On the eve of Rongali Bihu, the festival of joy & fervor, Guwahati Press Club in association with MMCH, Panbazar has organized a free media OPD clinic on 10 April 2019 at its premises, where the participants will get the opportunity to screen their lipid profile, RFT, LFT, RBS in blood.
The reports will be available next day at the press club office. Member-journalists are requested to arrive at 11 am to join the camp, which will continue till 1 pm on Wednesday
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