In a novel initiative, the local tribal community has joined hands with WWF-India and the Forest Department for restoration of degraded animal corridors linking Kaziranga National Park with the Karbi Anglong hills.

The restoration drive seeks to secure lost habitat comprising degraded forests through afforestaion, and the Panbari-Dolamora corridor critical to elephant movement from Kaziranga ha

The Assam government has instituted a one-man inquiry committee to find the reasons behind the death of four wild elephants near the Kaziranga National Park earlier this month.

Guwahati, Oct 14: Human-elephant conflict has reached alarming proportions in Assam with at least four wild Asiatic elephants being poisoned by the villagers in the past one week, wildlife authorities said.

Guwahati, Oct.

As many as four wild elephants have died around the Kaziranga National Park within six days, ringing alarm bells among the authorities.

Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain today said that the State Government was trying to settle the land acquisition process for extending the area of Kaziranga National Park.

He said that once the legal process was completed for the six subsequent additions, the park area would gain a substantial extension from its present area of 430 sq km.

Hussain, who was addressing a gathering at the Srimant

KOHORA, Sept 16

Guwahati, Sept.

Guwahati: Seven poachers on Wednesday surrendered before the authority of Kaziranga National Park (KNP), the famous abode of one-horned Indian rhino, with arms and ammunition and pledged to join hand in conservation efforts.

A Park official informed that an NGO called Rhino Jagaran Mancha from Bonkuwal village in the fringe of Kaziranga National Park (KNP) facilitated the surrender of the poach

Even as the rising water-level of the Brahmaputra entered and inundated vast portions of the 840-sq km Kaziranga National Park in Assam in the past four days, for the authorities it has come as a blessing.