The rhino count in Assam has gone down yet again as a full grown male one-horned rhino succumbed to the attack of poachers in Orang National Park in Assam. Authorities at the park found the carcass near Pichola anti-poaching camp in the park. The missing horn was tell-tale evidence of the incidence of poaching. There […]
Selfie Inside Kaziranga National Park Gets Poachers In Jail
On June 18th last year, deep inside the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, two men killed a female rhino for her horn. The poachers were so elated that they took a selfie right then and there, posing proudly with the butchered rhino. Little did they know then, that 7 months later, it would be this […]
Video: Can 3D Printing Save Rhinos From Extinction?
Scientists have developed a customised 3D printer that can create an exact replica of a rhino horn that not only looks like a horn but also has the genetic makeup of a true rhino horn. If this technology works, we could be looking at a great alternative that could save hundreds of rhinos from getting […]
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 […]
Barbaric Poachers Take a Rhino’s Life Yet Again
Rhinos (Rhinoceros unicornis) at Kaziranga National Park are not safe. Yet again, on Sunday one of the adult female rhinos of the park was killed and its horn chopped off by poachers. Although park rangers heard the gun shot and rushed to the spot, the subsequent rounds of fire between them and the poachers led […]
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 […]
Orang National Park Poacher-free No more: Three Rhino Deaths within a Week
(Some images used in the article may be discomforting) POACHING: The Orang National Park located on the north bank of the Brahmaputra River in the Darrang and Sonitpur districts of Assam, India, had a distinguishing title till a fortnight ago. It was the only National Park in the North eastern state which could proudly display […]
Another Rhino Death in India Scars World Rhino Day
POACHING: Today is World Rhinoceros Day; a day to celebrate a magnificent animal that evolved about 50 million years ago from the first mammals that developed hooves. But the animal bestowed with natural armour has little to feel good about especially in its home continents of Africa and Asia. Even as the day makes the […]
2012 Worst Poaching Year for India
The year that went by could have been remembered for being the year that Western Ghats became a world heritage site or the year when Asiatic Lions were no more considered Critically Endangered. But ruining the joys of all the positive is one scar constantly surfacing as a conservationist’s worst nightmare. 2012 recorded the largest number of killings of endangered animals in India making it the worst poaching year in the last decade.
Google gives 5 Million Dollars to WWF for its War against Wildlife Crime
Poachers’ task to wipe away wildlife in Asia and Africa, has just been made tougher by Google. World Wildlife Fund (WWF) today received a major grant from Google to use state-of-the-art technology to help protect endangered species like elephants, rhinos and tigers from poachers and wildlife traffickers.