 Reference Base  Quintennial review of forest administration in the Provin... |
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Assam Forest Department; Cavendish, P.H., 1929. Quintennial review of forest administration in the Province of Assam for the years 1924-25 to 1928-29, with the Progress report of forest administration for 1928-29. Shillong, Assam Government Press
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Asia - South Asia - India - Assam |
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Conservation |
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Indian Rhino |
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p.8 A confiscated rhinoceros horn weighing 40 tolas has been sold by auction for Rs. 600 in Darrang. Almost every portion of a rhinoceros has a ready market value, the dried blood being especially prized. It can therefore be easily understood why poaching is so rife, and if adequate measures are not taken to stop this, it can only be a matter of time for this interesting animal to disappear altogether.
Progress report of forest administration for 1928-29
p.4 Two cases of rhino shooting in Kamrup were disposed of during the year by fines of Rs. 20 and Rs. 25. The Divisional Forest Officer asked that, in future, Game Sanctuary cases might be tried at Gauhati instead of at the subdivisional headquarter but no orders on this have been received.
p.19 Poaching occurred in the North Kamrup Game Sanctuary on a serious scale. The Cacharis living along the south boundary of the sanctuary in an area that has been very much neglected from the administrative point of view proclaimed that they intended to kill rhino, subsequent on the dismissal by the Subdivisional Officer of several minor cases where poachers had been caught practically red-handed, on the grounds that there were no witnesses other than game sanctuary staff. Two cases of rhino poaching were taken to court and fines of Rs. 20 and rs. 25 were inflicted on the very men who as had been reported several years before, were willing to put down Rs. 1,000 from time to time for the carcase of a rhino. The word had gone out that the Civil Department would not back up the Forest Department and naturally the Cacharis, who are a fine, brave lot of men, seized their opportunity. It is not known how many rhino were killed, but rumour has it that one man alone disposed of 8 horns.
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