Not a single one-horned rhino in Assam was poached in 2022, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Tuesday. Strict vigil by armed commandos and forest personnel as well as the use of ...

A large adult rhinoceros from Kaziranga National Park has been spotted roaming across various sandbars and 'Chaporis' ...

A higher demand for its ‘aphrodisiac’ horn and a resultant price rise has made the one-horned rhino more vulnerable than before. Assam forests officials said this on Saturday after poachers ...

"We can easily say that Assam has almost two-third of the global population of one-horned rhinos. Proactive conservation efforts have helped in increasing the rhino population in the state ...

Three persons, suspected of involvement in rhino poaching within Assam's Kaziranga National Park, were arrested following a coordinated operation in Golaghat and Jorhat districts, an official said ...

The largest population of these animals is found in Assam. However, the species is extremely vulnerable to poaching due to the high value of their horns. "In some countries, rhino horns are used ...

From 75 in 1905 to 3,600 in 2020, India's rhino population has increased by 35 times in 115 years. In what can be said as a major success in Assam's one-horn Rhino conservation, only one Rhino was ...

Poachers have killed yet another one-horned rhino in Assam's Kaziranga National Park and took away its horn, officials said on Thursday. Park officials said the incident came to notice on Thursday ...

MORIGAON: A rhino was shot dead and its horn taken away by a gang of poachers, two of whom were killed in an encounter with forest guards in Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary in central Assam on Wednesday.

Guwahati, Sep 22 (PTI) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa on Sunday claimed that rhino poaching has dropped by 86 per cent since the first BJP government took charge in the state in 2016.

It's home to one of the largest Indian rhino populations in Assam state. The Indian rhino, also known as the greater one-horned rhino, is a species native to the Indian subcontinent. The orphaned ...

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday announced that there was no poaching of rhinoceros in 2022 in the state. “2022 was a landmark year as no rhino died at the hands of poachers in the ...