The edges of the country boat nearly kissed the flooded water of Sohola beel in Assam’s Kaziranga National Park as the forester-boatman kept pulling the oar. The Indian rhinoceros, Bengal tiger, Asian elephant, wild water buffalo, and eastern swamp deer collectively comprise Kaziranga’s Big Five. With the mushrooming of facilities like schools, resorts, restaurants, newer settlements and rising vehicular traffic …
Bengaluru-headquartered Asian Nature Conservation Foundation founded by Prof Raman Sukumar of IISc and the late Prof Dhritikanta Lahiri Choudhury has been actively involved in elephant conservation since 1997. The Assam Forest Department wanted actionable insights and requested the team to look at the human-elephant conflicts in Golaghat district near Kaziranga and Hamren district near Karbi Anglong. “The short-term goal was …
The tiger can feel helpless too. Wildlife officials and rescue workers at the flooded Kaziranga National Park had to provide a “safe passage” for three tigers in less than two days, guiding them to the relative safety of the hills beyond a highway along the southern edge of the park. One was directed towards Karbi Anglong and reached safely, the …
