Concerned over growing incidents of poaching of rhinos, five Asian rhino range nations in a resolution asked India to take measures, including increased level of security to wildlife parks, to prot

With the 30{+t}{+h}rhino to be killed this year in India falling to the bullets of poachers at Kaziranga National Park, Assam, on September 17, WWF-India has on the occasion of World Rhino Day urge

Expressing concern over spurt in rhino poaching in Assam, WWF-India has said that adoption of National Rhino Conservation Plan (NRCP) has become imperative for the protection of the species.

"After decades of conservation success, which resulted in the population of rhinos in Assam rising to more than 2,500 at present, the spurt in poaching over the last couple of years seems to indicate that poaching syndicates are strengthening. To avoid loss of these hard-fought gains, there is an urgent need for the adoption of NRCP for India," WWF-India said on the occasion of World Rhino Day on Saturday.

Barely five days after a rhino was killed on August 30, Kaziranga National Park lost another rhino to the poachers on Wednesday.

KATHMANDU: The governments of Nepal and China have agreed to step up collaborative efforts in a bid to enforce a crackdown on illegal wildlife trade at the border region of the two countries in a f

The central government has turned down the Assam government's proposal for aerial surveillance of the Kaziranga National Park by drones, state forest minister Rockybul Hussain said Wednesday.

Barack Obama launched a new initiative against wildlife trafficking on Monday, using his executive authority to take action against an illegal trade that is fueling rebel wars and now threatens the

Days after the successful translocation of old rhino calf Purabi, around one year old, from Kaziranga to Manas, the Assam forest department in collaboration with the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) i

Not only the translocation of lions to Chandraprabha wildlife sanctuary has failed but ten other translocations across the world have also failed, the latest one being the Indian Rhino's translocat

’’We have been rescuing rhino calves at Kaziranga in various circumstances and most of them are now successfully hand raised at the CWRC. At due course of time, all these calves go back to the wilderness again’’

A female rhino calf – Purabi – on Friday was translocated to Manash National Park (MNP) from Kaziranga National Park (KNP) by the Assam Forest Department to join an orphaned rhino calf being hand–reared in MNP.