One more rhino killed in KNP

The Sentinel , Friday, October 19, 2012
Correspondent : From our Correspondent

NAGAON, Oct 18: One more rhino has been reportedly found dead inside Kaziranga National Park with its horn intact. The forest officials however dehorned the dead rhino. If rhinos from Kaziranga are lost at the prevailing rate, either by natural death or by death at the hands of the poachers, the day may not be far off when there will be no more rhino in the National park. It may be noted that in the Lawkhowa wildlife sanctuary in Nagaon district, there is not a single rhino at present when this sanctuary was once known to house a good number of this endangered animal. There were about 110 rhinos in Lawkhowa sanctuary till 1993, but due to rampant poaching and other causes its number has been reduced to zero by now. The nature lovers and people in general expects the government and the Forest authorities to take adequate protection measures to save the rhinos in Kaziranga National Park so as to ensure that it does not have to face the same fate like that of the Lawkhowa wildlife sanctuary.

 
SOURCE : http://www.sentinelassam.com/state2/story.php?sec=2&subsec=14&id=135973&dtP=2012-10-19&ppr=1#135973
 


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