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Business News/ Politics / Policy/  Assam’s Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary sees jump in one-horned rhinoceros
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Assam’s Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary sees jump in one-horned rhinoceros

Pradipta Baruah, supervisor of a census carried out Sunday at the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, says there are now 102 one-horned rhinos living in the park

A forest guard keeps vigil as one horned rhinos take shelter on a highland in the flood affected Pobitora wildlife sanctuary in Assam. The number of rhinos in the 38-sq-km reserve increased to 102 in 2018 from 93 during the last count in 1993. Photo: APPremium
A forest guard keeps vigil as one horned rhinos take shelter on a highland in the flood affected Pobitora wildlife sanctuary in Assam. The number of rhinos in the 38-sq-km reserve increased to 102 in 2018 from 93 during the last count in 1993. Photo: AP

Guwahati: A tiny wildlife sanctuary in northeastern India has reported a jump in the number of one-horned rhinoceroses.

Pradipta Baruah, supervisor of a census carried out Sunday at the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, says there are now 102 one-horned rhinos living in the park, up from 93 during the last count, in 1993.

The reserve, which is just 38 square kilometers (15 square miles), is outside of the Assam state capital, Guwahati.

India’s Kaziranga National Park, also in Assam, is the main home of the one-horned rhino, with more than 2,000.

All of the world’s five rhino species are under constant threat from poachers who sell their horns on black markets, often in countries where rhino horn is believed to increase male potency.

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Published: 20 Mar 2018, 03:12 PM IST
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