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Assam destroys over 2,400 rhino horns to bust medicinal mythOn World Rhino Day on Wednesday, Assam set on fire a large stockpile of over 2,400 rhino horns, which were extracted from naturally or acci...
Assam Floods: How 2,400 rhinos in Kaziranga are fleeing for their livesWith 90% of Kaziranga National Park flooded, 2,400 one-horned rhinos are fleeing for their lives.
102 rhinos in Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, census finds
Trinamool Congress government in Bengal claims success in rhino and elephant numbersRecent ‘Camera Trap’ technology showed healthy population of tigers in the wild and for the first time, a census of crocodiles was done in ...
RTIs punch holes in Prakash Javadekar's claims on growing rhino countGovernment officials point to the rise in the number of rhinoceros in Kaziranga in Assam to stress that the situation is not so dire.
- Kaziranga loses another rhino to poachers
The Kaziranga National Park, a World Heritage Site about 250 km from here, lost another rhino to poachers on Friday.
Rhino population up in Kaziranga National Park despite poachingThe population of rhinos in the Kaziranga National Park increased by 72, even as 54 pachyderms were poached at the park since 2013.
Rhino census to start in north Bengal forestsThe forest department will conduct rhino census at Gorumara National Park spread over an area of over 88 square kilometres and other adjace...
Assam: Poaching apart, natural deaths claiming rhinosAt least 1,002 rhinos have died natural deaths in wild habitats while four have died in the state zoo. Seventy-five rhinos have died natura...
- Habitat havoc
Last week four elephants died on rail tracks of Jalpaiguri.
- Rise in Kaziranga rhino count despite poaching
Amid death, there is new life at Kaziranga National Park. At the end of a two-day rhino population census at the Unesco World Heritage Site...
Rhino census in Kaziranga amid rampant poachingMore than 250 personnel from the state forest department, NGOs and media groups have been engaged in the operation.
Wildlife management hits a low in Assam in 2012Assam, famed for its national parks and wildlife sanctuaries, faced one of its worst years in wildlife management as it lost an estimated 8...
- After Kaziranga, call of the wild rings out from Pobitora
After Kaziranga National Park, Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, also famous for one-horn rhinos, was opened for visitors on Friday.
39 rhinos killed in 10 months in Kaziranga National ParkThe death of 39 rhinos in and around the world-famous Kaziranga National Park in less than 10 months has brought to the fore the threat fac...
Kaziranga loses 39 rhinos in 10 monthsThe rhino population at Kaziranga National Park has taken a serious hit because of the two waves of floods and a spurt in poaching activiti...
34 elephants, 200 staff to conduct rhino census in Kaziranga National ParkAs many as 34 elephants and 200 personnel will be involved in the tenth rhino census inside the world famous Kaziranga National Park in upp...
- Rhino census in Bengal from March 12
Rhino census in West Bengal will begin from March 12, forest minister Hiten Barman said.
- ''Kaziranga has highest tiger density in the world''
Notwithstanding the three tiger deaths in the Kaziranga National Park in Assam this month, the sanctuary has the highest density of the big...
- Nine arrested in anti-poaching drive in Nepal
Nine persons, including a soldier, have been arrested and security tightened in a drive to curb poaching after 11 rhinos were killed over t...