Things are hotting up in the wildlife sector in Assam, in what may be a major embarrassment for the state. Apparently, a high ranking forest official illegally spent over a crore of rupees from a Tiger Fund on a President’s visit to Kaziranga National Park in February last year. Things haven’t been going well in […]
Tezpur : Poachers reportedly broke into Assam’s Kaziranga National Park, killed an adult rhinoceros and sawed off its horn, It’s the third such incidents in the protected zone this week, says a PTI report. The carcass of the male rhino was found today (November 9) near Bokpara camp under Kohora range of the park where […]
Assam has a ‘treasure trove’ of rhino horns. But there were rumours that the ‘genuine’ rhino horns were being sneaked out and sold in the black market. Now Assam has a ‘Committee for the examination of Rhino horn’. The rhino horn verification process initiated by the State government got under way on Saturday with the […]
