Authorities in Assam have enforced speed regulations on a highway along the famed Kaziranga National Park to prevent vehicles from hitting animals fleeing the sanctuary to escape a flood, officials said here on Monday. Kaziranga is the world

Five teams of the forest department today fanned out on elephant backs in Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary to identify herbivores that showed signs of illness.

Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary is gearing up for a possible anthrax attack as a rhino calf is suspected to have died of the disease yesterday.

Nearly extinct

The Indian one-horned rhinoceros which is the pride of India in general and Assam in particular is facing serious threat from the annual floods.

Guwahati: With Kaziranga National Park, home to the largest number of one-horned rhinos in the world, getting maximum attention for conservation and protection, poachers have shifted focus to Orang National Park in northern Assam. As this 78.82 sq km park faces a shortage of manpower and equipment, poachers have managed to kill at least three rhinos this year.

MANGALDAI, June 21: The Orang National Park (ONP) authorities promptly swung into action following the killing of a full grown female rhino in the evening of June 20 and arrested two hard-core poachers at Jakhalabandha in Nagaon district, at a distance of about 140 km from ONP, while they were proceeding towards Dimapur, Nagaland, in a passenger bus today at about 9 am.

GOLAGHAT, June 18: The Bongaigaon sector of the Sahastra Seema Bal (SSB) under the ministry of Home Affairs has been engaged in intensive patrolling conducted by the SSb to guard the Indo-Bhutan International border and their hard work has paid off as a huge quantity of ganja, a rhino horn and leopard skin worth lakhs of rupees were seized by them while they were conducting their routine checks, s

The population of one-horned rhinoceros in the famous Kaziranga National Park (KNP) in Assam has registered a considerable increase as per the latest census carried out by the Assam Forest and Wildlife Department with the help of experts from different wildlife NGOs.