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.
NDRF and SDRF personnel have fished out the ill-fated machine boat a day after it capsized in the river Kolohi with overcrowded passengers on Monday.But the SDRF personnel deployed in the search operation have not found even a single body so far. The search operation is expected to end on Tuesday in the absence of any specific missing complaint lodged before the authority. Talking to reporters in Guwahati, DGP Khagen Sama said that the passengers, mostly, might have swam across the river.According to Sarma, “no death of any passenger of the capsized boat has been reported. So, we have presumed that there is no death in the accident.”
Gauhati High Court on October 5 will hear Akhil Gogoi’s PIL alleging anomalies in the civil services examination by the Assam Public Service Commission.A division bench of the court on Monday took serious note on the allegations of disproportionate assets belonging to APSC chairman Rakesh Paul and asked a senior police officer to probe it and file an affidavit accordingly.
Not even a single body has so far been fished out from the river Kolohi after an overcrowded machine boat met with a mishap in the outskirt of Guwahati on Monday.SDFR personnel deployed in the rescue operation will be back in action from Tuesday morning. “Nobody so far formally lodged the complaint of loss before the authority. Without a specific complaint how will be proceed,” a senior SDRF personnel told Assam Times.The incident took place at 1-30 in the afternoon when an overcrowded boat carrying more than 300 people capsized in the river.Local residents told Assam Times that the engine of the boat, carrying the passengers from Chaygaon to Champupara stopped functioning properly as it...
Assam Governor PB Acharya on Monday joined the war of wards against chief minister Tarun Gogoi a week after his alleged political consultation with a BJP delegation triggered no less controversy.Talking to reporters in the sidelines of a function at the Raj Bhawan, Acharya said that he had no political discussion with the BJP delegation that triggers so much controversy. Without naming Gogoi, the governor said somebody is confused with the imminent lose of power.Gogoi along with Congress, AGP have been taking on Acharya for his alleged political consultation with BJP leaders and MPs at the Raj Bhawan.
BJP leader Mrinal Saikia came down heavily on Akhil Gogoi saying that the KMSS leader was addicted. Addressing the reporters in Golaghat on Monday, Saikia called Gogoi a Congress agent. “Akhil is a leader who is addicted to movement and protest. He cannot live a single day without engaging in movement or protest,” said Saikia. The BJP leader filed a PIL alleging presence of Bangladeshi immigrants in Bandardubi, Deochor, Palkhowa areas of Kaziranga.
Congress is all set to form the Tiwa Autonomous Council on October 9.The process to form the council gathered momentum two days after the Gauhati High Court asked the ruling party to form the council.Top leaders of the ruling party met in Dispur on Monday where they decided to form the council on October 9.
A Dibrugarh-based doctors has been remaining traceless for the last couple of days from New Delhi. According to reports, Dr Hemroam Pegu who owns a nursing home in the town has gone missing after he arrived in New Delhi on September 23.As soon as he was understood to have left a hotel in Paharganj Hotel the doctor has been remaining incommunicado.
At least 40 persons have been missing when the machine boat carrying them met with a mishap in the river Kolohi in the outskirt of Guwahati on Monday.The incident took place when the overcrowded boat carrying more than 300 people capsized in the middle of the river after it hit at wooden bridge at around one in the afternoon.Many people managed to swim out while more than 40 others are missing forcing the authority to launch a search operation by SDRF. Details are awaited.
Security forces killed two suspected militants at an encounter in Dhubri district on Monday. The encounter took place at Chalibhui in the morning where the ultras died on the spot. Army and police jointly launched an operation in the area in the wee hours where the militants were killed at 3:50 in the morning. An AK-56 rifle, one 9mm pistol, two hand grenades, 40 rounds of AK ammunition were seized from the spot.
Scams after scams seem to have crippled the Karbi Anglong Hills Autonomous Council. This time the epicenter is forest department where an astronomical Rs 90 lakh fund is shown to have utilized in the name of a park in the hills district which really does not exist.Shown to have been set up at Hamren, fund was released in four phases in 2012. But it was a white lie if an enquiry report is to be believed. According to the which has yet to be made public, the forest department claimed to have utilized Rs 90 lakh in 2012 in the name of the park in Hamren.The scam came to light when deputy secretary Tenson Engti was on visit to Hamren for the spot inquiry.The department sent the proposal of the...
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