Golagahat/Tezpur: According to Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, rhinos have made a comeback to Assamese wildlife reserves Laokhowa and Burachapori, forty years after poachers decimated the pachyderm population there.
According to a forest official, human encroachment into these protected areas had occurred throughout the years and had been removed by the authorities last year.
According to a forest official, human encroachment into these protected areas had occurred throughout the years and had been removed by the authorities last year.
After nearly 40 years, two rhinos have been seen in the Laokhowa-Burachapori wildlife sanctuaries, which are a part of “Greater Kaziranga,” according to Kaziranga National Park (KNP) Director Sonali Ghosh. According to her, there were 45–50 rhinos living in the Laokhowa–Burachapori forest in the Nagaon district as of 1983. “After they were stolen, human pressure caused the habitat of grasslands to deteriorate. Rogue rhinos from the eastern side (Kazi…) and north bank (Orang National Park)
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“Sightings of rhinos in the first addition of Burachapori and Laokhowa wildlife sanctuaries since last November,” according to Ghosh, have been reported. The two rhinos most likely entered “through the recently restored (evicted areas) of Arimari and the second addition of Orang National Park,” the speaker speculated. Ten tigers can be found in the protected region in addition to rhinos.
Between February 13 and February 15, of last year, an eviction campaign was conducted, resulting in the removal of 1,282 hectares of forest land and 817 hectares of government land that had not been surveyed. 75 frontline jobs, including deputy ranger, have been filled in the region, according to Ghosh, reinforcing the government’s will to fortify the terrain and bring back the forest’s former splendor.
