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| Title: |
Game preservation in Assam |
| Author(s): |
Milroy, A.J.W. |
| Year published: |
1932 |
| Journal: |
Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire |
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16 |
| Pages: |
28-38 |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Poaching
Indian Rhino
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| The destruction of a large number of rhinos in 1929 by armed poachers was reported by the Forest Department. There was a prompt despatch by the local Government of a force of Assam Rifles under a British officer to deal with the situation. |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| Dicerorhinus sumatrensis . Formerly common in the Lushai and Manipur Hills and occasionally found in North Cachar, but by now almost hunted to the vanishing point by Lushais and Kukis. The record flood of July 1929 drove the rhino up into the hills and very few have been allowed by the Lushais ... |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| The opening up by forest villagers of several big patches of marshy land in the Forest Reserves of South Cachar seriously reduced the number of suitable haunts available for this species. Most of the remaining patches, however, will have to be kept closed to cultivation in order to preserve feed... |
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Location:
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| Formerly common in the Lushai and Manipur Hills and occasionally found in North Cachar, but by now almost hunted to the vanishing point by Lushais and Kukis. The record flood of July 1929 drove the rhino up into the hills and very few have been allowed by the Lushais to return. |
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Location:
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. Formerly common in the Lushai and Manipur Hills and occasionally found in North Cachar, but by now almost hunted to the vanishing point by Lushais and Kukis. The record flood of July 1929 drove the rhino up into the hills and very few have been allowed by the Lushais t... |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| The Local Government introduced a Bill making horns and tusks the property of Government as forest produce. The Legislative Council approved of rhino horn being listed as forest produce and most benificial results have since followed. |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| Rules regarding close seasons had been framed at an early date for the Reserve Forests in conformity with practice in other parts of India, but game remained entirely unprotected in wastelands, known as Unclassed State Forests, until about 1910 when close seasons were introduced following a lette... |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| It is on record that Rowland Ward identified the head and shield from a rhino shot by a Forest Officers in the Bengal Dooars as belonging to this species, and it would be strange if it did not also occur in the contiguous Goalpara and Monas Sanctuary. Pairs of smaller, less truculent, and defini... |
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Game preservation in Assam
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