Elephant escorts, special teams fail to save injured rhino

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 15:26

Elephant escorts stood guard and special teams monitored his wounds but the injuries inflicted by other rhinos during a fight proved too much for a 11-year-old rhino that died in Salukapur area here.

Permit to hunt endangered rhino sells for $350,000 despite protests

Last Updated: Sunday, January 12, 2014, 13:29

The license allows for the killing of a single, post-breeding bull, with Namibian wildlife officials on hand for the hunt to make sure an appropriate animal is selected.

Assam announces Rs1 lakh reward for information on poachers

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 26, 2013, 20:59

The Assam government Tuesday announced a bounty of up to Rs1 lakh to anyone who can give information about poachers who have killed over 30 rhinos in the state this year.

Rhino killed in Kaziranga; horn and ears taken away

Last Updated: Monday, November 25, 2013, 16:45

An adult male rhino was shot dead in Kaziranga National Park in upper Assam by poachers who took away its horn, ears and a patch of its skin, park sources said.

Rhino poaching nearly outpaces births, experts warn

Last Updated: Saturday, November 23, 2013, 09:41

Deaths of rhinos by poaching are fast approaching a tipping point, with the number of endangered creatures killed annually nearly outnumbering births for the first time, international experts warned Friday.

Parliamentary team concerned over rhino killings in Kaziranga

Last Updated: Friday, November 22, 2013, 18:02

Expressing serious concern over the killing of rhinos by poachers at the Kaziranga National Park, a parliamentary standing committee team has assured to take up the matter with the concerned central ministries.

Day after opening, rhino carcass recovered in Kaziranga

Last Updated: Saturday, November 2, 2013, 20:55

A day after the Kaziranga National Park was opened for this tourist season, forest guards Saturday recovered a one-horned rhino`s carcass with its horn missing.

Rhino horn recovered, two nabbed

Last Updated: Friday, November 1, 2013, 15:10

Two persons were arrested and a rhino horn and its small pieces worth over Rs 45 lakh in the international market were recovered from their possession in upper Assam`s Sibsagar district, police said on Friday.

Manas rhino loses life and horn

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 20:05

Poachers killed a one-horned rhino in Assam`s Manas National Park and decamped with its horn even as forest guards gunned down a poacher in a separate incident inside the sanctuary.

Rhino killed in Manas National Park

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 15:05

A rhino was killed and its horn removed in Manas National Park, a world heritage site, park sources said on Wednesday.

Rhino carcass found in Kaziranga

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 18:02

The carcass of a rhino, with its horn intact, was seized by forest guards at Burapahar Range of Kaziranga National Park Tuesday.

Rhino shot dead in Pobitora, rhino carcass found in Kaziranga

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 22:07

The 38.8 sqkm Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, located about 30 km east of Guwahati, has the densest population of the Great Indian one-horned Rhino in its effective 16 sqkm rhino habitat.