The carcass was discovered yesterday afternoon around 4.30 p.m. by forest department personnel inspecting the area.
Digital Desk: Last night, the first rhino poaching incident of the year was reported in Kaziranga National Park.
According to preliminary reports, a rhino carcass was discovered inside the Kaziranga national park with its horn missing, indicating a clear case of poaching.
According to information received, the rhino carcass was discovered in Bormar beel at Kathpara camp, within the Western Bagori forest range of Kaziranga. The rhino was killed six to seven days ago, according to forest department officials who investigated the incident.
The carcass was discovered yesterday afternoon around 4.30 p.m. by forest department personnel inspecting the area. Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Ramesh Kumar Gogoi was informed of the entire poaching incident.
"One rhino carcass was detected by staff of Kathpara camp under Western Range Bagori at about 4.30 pm in Bormer beel on 26th March'2023," according to a DFO notification.
Miscreants removed the rhino's horn and left a cut mark in its nasal bone. It is obvious that the rhino was killed by a poacher about 6-7 days before. The sex has yet to be determined because the carcass is floating in the water."
It should be noted that the rhino poaching incident, the first of the year, follows the Assam Police Department's efforts, which saw the state record zero rhino deaths due to poaching in the calendar year 2022.
On January 1, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma stated that no rhino poaching incidents would occur in Kaziranga or across the state in 2022. Poaching of rhinos was once common, but it has now decreased dramatically as a result of the authorities' stringent surveillance and other enhanced security measures in Kaziranga National Park.
Assam is well-known for its one-horned rhinoceros, and the state draws a large number of tourists who come to see these animals. According to the most recent census data released by the national park authority, Kaziranga National Park now has 2,613 rhinos, and the number is growing, he said.
The number of rhinos lost to poaching in 2021 was the lowest in 21 years, at just one. Poachers killed as many as 27 rhinos in 2013 and 2014.
In September, the Assam government publicly burned a stockpile of 2,479 rhino horns to send a clear message to poachers that rhino horns have no medicinal or monetary value. "The use of rhino horns for medicinal purposes is a myth," Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had declared at the time.
The state government had received widespread praise for its efforts to reduce poaching in the state, so much so that Hollywood actor and noted wildlife conservation activist Leonardo DiCaprio congratulated the Assam government on the historic achievement.
"In 2021, the government of the Indian state of Assam set out to end poaching of the Endangered Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros in Kaziranga National Park following the killing of around 190 animals for their horns between 2000 and 2021," the actor wrote on Instagram. They achieved their goal in 2022, and no rhinos were poached in the area for the first time since 1977."
"Kaziranga National Park is home to 2,200 Greater One-horned Rhinos, which accounts for roughly two-thirds of the world's population," he continued. This victory in India comes with more good news, as @wwf reports that the world population of the rare rhino has risen to around 3,700 from around 200 at the turn of the twentieth century."
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