In a significant conservation breakthrough, the elusive Dhole (Cuon alpinus), also known as the Asiatic wild dog, has been rediscovered in the Kaziranga-Karbi Anglong Landscape of Assam. A study by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) confirmed photographic evidence of the species—once believed extinct in the region since the 1990s. Camera traps captured images of […]
News Shorts from the Wild
8 July 2019 – 14 July 2019 Assam Floods Submerge 90% of Kaziranga National Park The water level in Kaziranga National Park has increased and over 70 percent to 90 percent of the park is under water following the incessant rainfall in Assam. The government had deployed special rhino protection force this year as these animals […]
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 […]
Assam Government Plans 8 Key Strategies To Protect Rhinos
The Government of Assam, in an initiative to protect wild animals including rhinos and to fight poaching has announced a set of measures to be implemented soon. These are, 1. Appointment of 104 forest constables. The Chief Minister of Assam, Sarbananada Sonowal, directed the Chief Conservator of Forests, Darash Mathur to declare the results for […]
Photos: Skipping Rhinos And Elephants In A Pond
These photos have been taken by Adele Grunberg who visited Kaziranga National Park in India, in 2014 and was in for a pleasant surprise when she saw a bulky rhino skipping like children and elephants swimming in a pond filled with pink water hyacinths. This is a guest post. Photos and story re-published with permission […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Defence Ministry Says No to use of Drones in Kaziranga
CONSERVATION CONCERN: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) more popularly referred to as drones, are successfully being integrated for forest and wildlife surveillance across the globe. However, the apprehensions of the Indian defence ministry are proving to be a major hurdle for the induction of UAVs by the country’s forest department. Recently, the defence ministry turned down […]
The Last Rhinos of Kaziranga, will they Last?
Instead of being a protected reserve, the Kaziranga National Park of Assam, India has turned into a battleground between the poachers and the protectors. It is the rhinos that are in danger. Will they be able to survive? Yes, if better technogly is used for protection.
Poachers now using Children as their Ears and Eyes
In a shocking incident a 16 year old boy was arrested recently from Kaziranga as he was trying to help poachers in search of Rhinos. It is feared that after forest officials the poachers are now turning to young minds to corrupt them and turn them into foe of the wildlife as they hunt down the last remaining rhinos of Assam.