Here are the important environment and wildlife dates to remember for September 2018
Rhino Saved From Poachers In Assam
Forest officials of Assam were able to save a rhino’s life and cruel butchering of its horn when they arrested 5 poachers in Assam’s Orang national park last Sunday. Mangaldoi wildlife divisional forest officer, Sunnydeo Choudhury said that the poachers had already chalked out their plan to sneak into Orang, on the northern banks of […]
Indian Rhino: Surviving The Hunt
“Ambling on without a care in the world”, is how one British hunter-naturalist described that most formidable of Indian mega-herbivores, the rhinoceros. Indeed, there was a time when the Indian rhinoceros dominated the wet, swampy grasslands situated in the north of the Indian subcontinent. Seals of the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation of the 3rd century […]
Assam Rhino Numbers Rise under the Shadow of Poacher’s Gun
There are whispered ‘hurrays!’ among numerous wildlife conservationists of the country. The population of Indian rhinos or one horned rhinos living in Assam has increased by 27 percent in the last seven years according to the latest census reports. Even as the news is a big relief the worry lines still exist as India tries […]
High Infertility Rates Putting Indian Rhinos at Greater Risk of Extinction
RESEARCH: For a species to survive well in the planet the existing members should live safely in a healthy environment and the birth of future generations should continue at a regular pace. But the Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) is not surviving too well in the existing world. Not only is the animal getting lesser and lesser […]
Seven Down, More To Go? Rhinos Killed With Impunity
POACHING: We are barely two months into the new-year, and the number of rhinoceros that have fallen to poaching this year has already reached seven. While five rhinos were killed in January, two were killed as recently as last week on consecutive days of February. Of the seven rhinos killed, six were from the Kaziranga […]
Amazing Facts about the Rhino
Rhinoceros looks like an animal straight from the dinosaur age and it is indeed for the last 50 million years that this stealthy aninmal has inhabited our planet. The most prominent feature of this animal is undoubtedly the horn but did you know that the rhino is an accomplished sprinter or why it doesn’t mind some birds perching on its back all the time. Here are answers to these and some more amazing facts about the rhino.
Only Rhino in Man-made Forest Killed by Poachers
For the last 30 years, Jadav Payeng has been the lone warrior who created a forest in a barren land in Assam. Jadav’s relentless crusade was rewarded when wildlife including a rhinoceros made the forest its home. But the happiness was short lived. Last Wednesday poachers killed the adult rhino for its horn leaving Jadav in despair and the forest department failing to save a rhino yet again.
Squatters and Solid Waste threatening Kaziranga wildlife
India’s Kaziranga national park is a world heritage site and a park that is home to at least 15 of India’s threatened mammal species including the one horned Rhino. But now the forest officials are concerned that the animals are being threatened by increased plastic waste and other solid waste strewn all over the protected forest grounds.