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Assam floods: Over 200 animals died in Kaziranga National Park since 10 August, reveals govt report
Fp Staff •Over 200 animals, including 12 one-horned rhinos, have drowned in Kaziranga National Park (KNP) in the last two weeks
Assam floods: Over 140 animal carcasses found at Kaziranga National Park
•area of the famed Kaziranga National Park and claimed the lives of over 140 animals, including seven rhinos.
Assam floods: 92 animals, including 7 rhinos, drown in deluge in Kaziranga National Park
•Over 90 animals, including seven rhinoceros, have died due to the flooding in the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, the government told Parliament.
Kaziranga loses 17 adult rhinos to floods, asks public to help care for orphaned baby rhinos
•Seventeen adult rhinos along with deer and other animals have been found drowned in Kaziranga, a 430-square-kilometre protected area of forest in Assam.
Assam floods: 250 animals including 20 rhinos dead in Kaziranga National Park
Ians •Nearly 250 animals, including at least 20 one-horned rhinos, have died in the heavy floods in Assam's Kaziranga National Park
Kaziranga in a crisis: Wildlife officials rescue baby rhinos trying to escape floods
Fp Staff •Kaziranga is facing a wildlife crisis as hog deer and rhinos escape the flooded national park and almost die.
Rare Indian rhinos face growing threat from poachers
•A decade ago, India had all but declared victory over poaching in Kaziranga, in Assam. But recent years have seen an alarming upsurge in their slaughter
Assam makes new plans to halt poaching of rhinos: Cops to join rangers in fight
•Kaziranga National Park in Assam is home to the world's largest population of the rare rhinos, with more than 2,000 of the species.
Assam govt plotting to kill rhinos to make way for Bangladeshi's: Modi
Fp Archives •"Aren't Rhinos the pride of Assam? These days there is a conspiracy to kill it. I am making the allegation very seriously. People sitting in the government...to save Bangladeshis... they are doing this conspiracy to kill rhinos so that the area becomes empty and Bangladeshis can be settled there," Modi said.
Rhino killed in Assam, two poachers gunned down
Fwire •Poachers killed yet another rhino in Assam's Pabitora wildlife sanctuary Wednesday, even as two poachers were shot dead by forest guards in an operation launched after hearing gunshots inside the sanctuary, officials said.