Kaziranga National Park is a net carbon emitter; climate change may make it worse
The soil in Kaziranga is home to a large population of bacteria that release carbon dioxide as they breathe, adding to what trees and others …
Assam bans mining in Kaziranga after Supreme Court order
The apex court had issued an order on April 12, 2019, ordering a mining ban along the southern boundary of the Kaziranga National Park
Assam floods: about 250 animals, including 17 rhinos dead in Kaziranga
The death toll is likely to rise after the entire floodwater gets out of the park
Distress call
Assam floods: 85% of Kaziranga submerged, 9 one-horned rhinos dead
The national park is home to more than 2,000 one-horned rhinos, the largest population of this species in the world
Assam struggles to protect wildlife from accidents on Kaziranga highway
Government has expressed its inability to adopt suggested technical measures to curb animal casualties
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Improving human-elephant relations
Elephant dies after falling in a pit at Patanjali project site in Assam
A total of three elephants fell in the pit, prompting questions on allocation of land in a possible elephant corridor to the company
Green tribunal orders state to restrict traffic around Kaziranga
Earlier this year, an expert panel had recommended construction of elevated roads to control animal deaths due to accidents
Assam government wants to build flyovers for Kaziranga rhinos
Elevated roads are expected to provide an easy passage to animals while moving between two adjacent forest reserves
Book Excerpt: When Assam seemed unwilling to share its rhinos
Arupjyoti Saikia relates the circumstances surrounding the translocation of rhinos from Kaziranga to Dudhwa in the early 1980s in his new book
What is the best time for rhino translocation in Assam? December, says study
Adult rhinos are the best candidates for translocation, a new study has said
Global Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (September 2-8)
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Rhino census
Kaziranga to reopen late
Pachyderm vs human
Marauding elephants in Assam's Kaziranga national park killed 70 people last year
Human-eating elephants
Rhinos can live with tribals
But in Kaziranga forest officials have no respect for their needs and customs
Do elephants grieve? Maybe, though not in the ‘human’ sense of the word
The apparent emotionality and the wide-ranging individual differences in the responses of elephants to their dead do indeed deserve further study
Flood threatens Kaziranga
Heightened risk of poaching as animals tend to leave the park area to take shelter on higher land
People protect forest
Flood havoc
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 16, 2019)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal