Arunachal police, Assam Wildlife Division arrest most wanted rhino poacher ANI | Updated: Feb 06, 2021 06:21 IST
Biswanath (Assam) [India], February 6 (ANI): A most wanted poacher involved in numerous cases of smuggling rhino horns was captured by officials of Kaziranga National Park and Arunachal Police, officials said on Friday.
According to P Shivkumar, director, Kaziranga National Park, the arrested was involved in many rhino poaching incidents in KNPTR, including one at Lokhora Chapori of 6th addition of the national park in April 2019. The Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate (SDJM) Gohpur, Assam had issued a non-bailable warrant against him, he added.
The Kaziranga National Park spread across the Golaghat, Karbi Anglong and Nagaon districts of Assam is home to two-thirds of the world s great one-horned rhinoceroses, an endangered species. (ANI)
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GUWAHATI: A wild buffalo died when security personnel tried to tranquilise it in Biswanath district in the past 24 hours. The adult buffalo, which strayed from the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve (KNPTR), was killed at Kumoliya after it attacked four persons, leaving one dead and two injured.
Biswanath Wildlife Division DFO Mukut Chandra Das told TOI, “The buffalo, which appeared in the park’s Biswanath division, killed a villager, Jayanta Das (45), on Thursday morning. A mahout is also killed on Thursday by an elephant, which is now being tranquilised.”
Das’s death created public anger and sparked a protest with the locals torching a forest range office and Mahindra Bolero vehicle at the site. The animal attacked and killed another person named Sukur Ali on Friday morning.
A wild buffalo was shot dead by security personnel after it killed two people and injured two others in Biswanath district in northern Assam bordering Arunachal Pradesh, officials said on Friday.The buffalo killed a young man in Biswanath .
Rare temple turtles released in Assam wetland
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The Forest Department, NGO Turtle Survival Alliance and Nagshankar temple authorities collaborated for the conservation of black softshell turtles, considered extinct in the wild
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Temple-reared black softshell turtles.
The Forest Department, NGO Turtle Survival Alliance and Nagshankar temple authorities collaborated for the conservation of black softshell turtles, considered extinct in the wild Twenty-two hatchlings of temple-reared black softshell turtles, considered extinct in the wild, were released in a major wetland within the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve on Tuesday.
These turtles were hatched five months ago at the Nagshankar temple in north-eastern Assam’s Biswanath district, under a collaborative conservation programme involving the State Forest Department, NGO Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA-India) and the temple authorities. Experts of TSA-I
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