Sonowal asks lady forest officials to formulate work plan for assessment of forest resources

Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Thursday took stock of nine baby rhinos rescued from the recent spate of floods and kept at a rehabilitation centre in the Kaziranga national park.

The National Green Tribunal on Wednesday slapped an environment compensation of Rs 25 lakh on Assam- based Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) for destruction of forest cover in Golaghat district to

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rohit Choudhury Vs. Union of India & Others dated 24/08/2016. The application was filed against the alleged illegal activities including operation of stone crushers, brick kilns, tea factories and other polluting activities in the No Development Zone that was demarcated by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change vide Notification dated 5th July, 1996 around the Numaligarh refinery in Assam.

GUWAHATI: A one-horned rhino cow and her calf were killed by poachers inside the Kaziranga National Park, said park official on Wednesday.

The flood situation aggravated further in Bihar today with 22 fresh deaths even as flash- floods killed five persons in Gujarat while the deluge situation in Assam improved marginally.

Guwahati: The current wave of flood has caused extensive damage to the infrastructure in the famed Kaziranga National Park (KNP) besides claiming 310 animals including 21 rhinos and 221 hog deer si

Over hundred rhinos, 45 tigers and 85 elephants across the country have fallen prey to poachers in the last three years, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.

Assam Forest Department, conservation groups fight battle to save wildlife, rescue 92 hog deer

The floods in Assam have swept away at least 13 of Kaziranga National Park’s iconic rhinos.

17 lakh affected in 21 districts, AASU demands special package from Centre

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