The National Green Tribunal has registered a suo moto case over the proposed construction of luxury hotels in and around Assam’s Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve, the world’s largest habitat of the endangered one-horned rhino. Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve is the world’s largest habitat of the endangered one-horned rhino. This came two days after the Assam Tourism …
GUWAHATI The Assam Government has denied allegations that the estimation of rhinos at the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve in March 2022 could have been doctored. Citing documents received through the Right to Information Act, eastern Assam-based environmental activist Rohit Choudhury wrote to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change on January 27 alleging that the 2022 census …
The Assam government has denied allegations of anomalies in the census of rhinos carried out last year at Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve as claimed by a right to information and wildlife activist. In the reply sent on Tuesday to additional director general of forests, Yadava also sought “suitable action” against Choudhury for bringing disrepute to the park, the …
