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Title: The greater one-horned rhino of Assam is threatened by poachers
Author(s): Vigne, L.; Martin, E.B.
Year published: 1994
Journal: Pachyderm
Volume: 18
Pages: 28-43, figs. 1-10, map 1, tables 1-10
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Poaching
Indian Rhino
Number of known rhinos poached in Manas. 1962 1 1963 1 1964 0 1965 1 1966 0 1967 0 1968 0 1969 0 1970 0 1971 1 1972 0 1973 0 1974 0 1975 0 1976 4 1977 0 1978 1 1979 5 1980 0 1981 2 1982 1 1983 3 1984 4 1985 1 1986 1 1987 7 198...
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Asia - South Asia - Bhutan
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
Personnel from a WWF project in Bhutan's Manas Park (where no rhinos are resident) have noticed that rhinos crossing over at night into Bhutan for grasses and minerals (and returning to the Indian side in the morning) have declined in number sharply from early 1992 to late 1993 (pers. comm.). No ...
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
Pabitora is further downstream from Kaziranga and covers a mere 16 kmy (see map). With a population of at least 56 rhinos (counted in April 1993), it probably has the highest concentration of wild rhinos anywhere in the world (see Table 10). Pabitora was made into a Reserve Forest in 1971, and...
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
Orang's main problem is that it cannot be expanded in size. On the north and east sides of the Sanctuary are Bengali villages, while on the south and west sides Orang is being eroded by the Brahmaputra and Dhansiri rivers, respectively. Due to the Forest Department's severe cut-back in funds in ...
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
There are seven Park extensions that have been agreed upon, six on the southern side, including highland areas, and one on the north, namely the Brahmaputra river section beside the Park and the islands within it, which will be a great asset in preventing fishermen from aiding poachers. Although...
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
Manas was gazetted a Wildlife Sanctuary in 1928 and elevated to the status of a National Park in 1990.
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
The first area in Assam gazetted for rhino protection was Kaziranga (see map) in 1908. At this time there were believed to be only a dozen or so Indian rhinos left there, but rhino numbers have now risen to an estimated 1,164 (see Table 5). The 430 kmy of Kaziranga is ideal rhino habitat as two...
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
It lies on the north bank of the Brahmaputra, west of Kaziranga, and covers only 75.6 kmy (see map).
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
Orang was first secured as a Game Reserve in 1915 because of its growing number of rhinos and in 1985 became a Wildlife Sanctuary.
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
Assam in north-east India (see map) was once home to all three species of Asian rhinos. They inhabited most of the floodplain of the Indo-gangetic and Brahmaputra riverine tracts and the neighbouring foothills. Human settlement, habitat destruction for crops and hunting, however, led to the kil...
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