Kaziranga rhinos find new home

Captured by a team of experts under the supervision of the Translocation Core Committee,they are the first batch of four in a project that involves ten.

Four rhinos from Kaziranga,three of them female,have set off on a 450km journey to a new home in Manas National Park,part of a project that intends to increase Indias rhino population to 3,000 by the decades end.

Captured by a team of experts under the supervision of the Translocation Core Committee,they are the first batch of four in a project that involves ten. They will reach Manas early on Monday morning.

The Indian Rhino Vision plan envisages shifting of ten rhinos to Manas during the current year from Kaziranga. Earlier,we moved 10 rhinos from Pobitora, said SP Singh,chief conservator of forests (wildlife),Assam. Eight of those 10 have survived.

Kaziranga had 2,201 rhinos in the 2009 count. Pobitora has the worlds highest density of rhinos. Manas,on the Indo-Bhutan border,had lost all its rhinos during the Bodo insurgency movement. Unesco had marked the park World Heritage Site in danger,a tag removed last year.

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