GUWAHATI: Two rhinos—a mother and a calf—were killed by poachers in Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park, about 150 km from here, on Saturday evening. The poachers chopped off the horn of one of the animals.
Forest officials said that the poachers gunned down the rhinos at the Hajar Bigha area a
JORHAT: A forest guard was killed by a rhino in Kaziranga National Park on Wednesday. Park authorities said that with this, a total of five forest staff were killed by animals in the park this year.
Ting Sinhar (30), a resident of Karbi Anglong district, sustained severe injuries on his head and
MADURAI: A Malabar pit viper (Trimeresurus malabaricus) was rescued from a farm in Usilampatti by the activists of a wildlife body. They also rescued a green vine snake from a residential area at Usilampatti on Monday.
The Malabar pit viper, which is commonly found in the Western Ghats, is rarely
WOKHA (Nagaland): No Amur falcons have been hunted since their arrival at the roosting site at Doyang Reservoir in Nagaland over a month ago. Thanks to the efforts of a group of hunters-turned-protectors, a well-known wildlife NGO said.
This is remarkable considering last year tens of thousands
GUWAHATI: In yet another incident of poaching, forest official in Assam's Manas National Park found a female rhino, with its horn missing, from the Bhuyanpara range in the eastern part of the park on Tuesday evening. This is the sixth rhino killed in the park since 2011 when the park obtained the Wo
