Guwahati: After a gap of over two years, poachers have managed to kill a one-horned rhino in Assam's Manas national park, officials said on Friday.
"The forest guards here spotted a rhino carcass on Friday morning from the Bhuyapara forest range of the park. The horn of the rhino was missing indicating it to be a case of poaching," said a senior park official, adding it seemed the killing occurred either last night or early Friday.
Poachers had killed four one-horned rhinos in the park in 2013, but since then there had been no poaching.
The park had also lost all its one-horned rhino population during this period. It however managed to get back its World Heritage site status in 2008, and one-horned rhinos were brought to the park from Kaziranga national park in 2010-11 as part of Assam government's ambitious Indian Rhino Vision (IRV) 2020 project aiming at having at least 3,000 one-horned rhinos in the state by 2020.
Poachers have already killed eight one-horned rhinos in Kaziranga national park since January this year.
"The forest guards here spotted a rhino carcass on Friday morning from the Bhuyapara forest range of the park. The horn of the rhino was missing indicating it to be a case of poaching," said a senior park official, adding it seemed the killing occurred either last night or early Friday.
Poachers had killed four one-horned rhinos in the park in 2013, but since then there had been no poaching.
The park had also lost all its one-horned rhino population during this period. It however managed to get back its World Heritage site status in 2008, and one-horned rhinos were brought to the park from Kaziranga national park in 2010-11 as part of Assam government's ambitious Indian Rhino Vision (IRV) 2020 project aiming at having at least 3,000 one-horned rhinos in the state by 2020.
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Poachers have already killed eight one-horned rhinos in Kaziranga national park since January this year.
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