Govt appoints Lt Gen N S Raja Subramani as next Chief of Defence StaffLieutenant General N S Raja Subramani (Retd.) has been appointed as the next Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), effective from his assumption of...
Rainbow coloured phantom lakes appear beside Namibia’s Great White Place in stunning satellite imagesAstronauts captured a stunning display of vibrant, shimmering lakes in Namibia's Etosha Pan, a rare event following heavy flooding. These e...
Extinction Watch: How African Black Rhino came back from extinctionBetween 2012 and 2018, the Black Rhino (Diceros bicornis) population across Africa has grown at a modest annual rate of 2.5% from an estima...
- Assam may ‘trim’ rhino horns to curb poaching
The Assam government has sought opinion from the people on trimming rhino horns to save them from poachers.
Environmentalists oppose Assam govt's move to dehorn rhinoThe Assam government's move to explore trimming of horns to save rhinos from poaching was opposed by an environmental activist body.
Rhinos being killed with alarming frequency in AssamThe killing of seven rhinos in the state within a span of a month-and-a-half has proved once again that poachers can still strike the one-h...
- 156 rhinos killed by poachers in last ten years in Assam
Altogether 156 rhinos were killed, including 40 during the current year alone, by poachers in Assam, a senior minister said.
Two more rhinos killed in Orang National ParkTwo rhinos—a mother and a calf—were killed by poachers in Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park, about 150 km from here, on Saturday evening. Th...
- New family members for Dudhwa park rhinos soon
Banke and its extended clan of 30 other rhinos at the Dudhwa national park will meet a new set of counterparts from Assam soon as the decks...
- 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...
- Poachers kills another rhino in Kaziranga, chop off horn
There has been no let up in rhino poaching in Assam yet.On Saturday, poachers killed another rhino at Kaziranga National Park and chopped o...
Poaching overtakes floods as major killer of rhinosAssam experienced one of the worst floods in eight years in 2012, resulting in the death of about 28 rhinos at Kaziranga National Park betw...
- Two rhinos found dead in Kaziranga
Kaziranga lost two more one-horned rhinos in a month.Forest staff found carcasses of two rhinos in the park's Kohora range on Sunday.
- Floods claim another Kaziranga rhino
A rhino carcass was found in the Ghorakati area of Kaziranga National Park, about 250 km from here, on Saturday.
- Poachers take advantage of floods, kill two rhinos in Kaziranga
Poachers killed two rhinos and chopped off their horns as they had strayed out of flood-hit Assam’s Kaziranga National Park to escape flood...
- Another rhino killed, horn chopped off
Barely five days after a female rhino was killed in Kaziranga National Park, an adult male rhino was killed by poachers in the park's Bagor...
Two rhinos translocated to Manas National ParkMaju and Raja, two rescued rhinos, have found a new home at Manas National Park.