GUWAHATI: Police and wooded area officers arrested two men from Kamargaon in Golaghat district's Bokakhat area while they had been attempting to kill a rhino in Kaziranga National Park on Thursday.
The poachers had been known as Joseph Hangal from Manipur and Digen Pegu. Park officers mentioned an AK-56 used to be seized from the duo. Hangal, a sharpshooter, had been specifically introduced down to the state through a local poachers' gang to gun down rhinos in the Agoratoli Range of Kaziranga, park officers added.
Interrogation of the poachers has begun. Park officers mentioned the timing of the poaching strive is no surprise. "Generally, poachers look for festive seasons as opportunities to sneak into the park to kill rhinos. But we have stepped up vigilance and activated undercover informers on the movement of poachers," some of the officers mentioned.
The latest arrest of poachers with an automated rifle came barely 10 days after some other poacher, Jiyaur Rahman, used to be arrested in conjunction with an AK-47 rifle from Ghiladharimukh village in the Sootea area of Biswanath.
Located about 250 km from here, Kaziranga is house to 2,000-odd rhinos. The animals are below consistent danger from poachers who hunt them for the horn, that are smuggled throughout the porous IndiaMyanmar global border in the northeast for sale in Vietnam and China.
A thriving racket of rhino horns in the northeast is engaged in smuggling out the body phase, which is in call for for use in traditional drugs in Vietnam and China.
However, park officers are an increasing number of apprehensive concerning the growing nexus between militants and poachers in wildlife crime. According to the officers, common seizures of computerized rifles from poachers who're arrested is an indication of their growing nexus with militants, who regularly look for techniques to make fast money out of the clandestine business in rhino horn.
Wildlife crime mavens mentioned poachers usually want.303 rifles for killing rhinos, but the fad for possessing computerized firearms, especially AK rifles, has extra to do with self-protection. "A .303 rifle for a sharpshooter in poachers' gang is an ideal firearm to gun down a rhino. The reason behind going for automatic rifles by poachers is only to protect themselves from forest guards in case a gang is caught in a crossfire," a wildlife crime professional mentioned.
In June this yr, several poachers together with Mujibur Ali and Jakir Hussain of Dalgaon in Darrang district had been arrested with one AK-56 rifle, one .303 rifle, a silencer and ammunition.
The poachers had been known as Joseph Hangal from Manipur and Digen Pegu. Park officers mentioned an AK-56 used to be seized from the duo. Hangal, a sharpshooter, had been specifically introduced down to the state through a local poachers' gang to gun down rhinos in the Agoratoli Range of Kaziranga, park officers added.
Interrogation of the poachers has begun. Park officers mentioned the timing of the poaching strive is no surprise. "Generally, poachers look for festive seasons as opportunities to sneak into the park to kill rhinos. But we have stepped up vigilance and activated undercover informers on the movement of poachers," some of the officers mentioned.
The latest arrest of poachers with an automated rifle came barely 10 days after some other poacher, Jiyaur Rahman, used to be arrested in conjunction with an AK-47 rifle from Ghiladharimukh village in the Sootea area of Biswanath.
Located about 250 km from here, Kaziranga is house to 2,000-odd rhinos. The animals are below consistent danger from poachers who hunt them for the horn, that are smuggled throughout the porous IndiaMyanmar global border in the northeast for sale in Vietnam and China.
A thriving racket of rhino horns in the northeast is engaged in smuggling out the body phase, which is in call for for use in traditional drugs in Vietnam and China.
However, park officers are an increasing number of apprehensive concerning the growing nexus between militants and poachers in wildlife crime. According to the officers, common seizures of computerized rifles from poachers who're arrested is an indication of their growing nexus with militants, who regularly look for techniques to make fast money out of the clandestine business in rhino horn.
Wildlife crime mavens mentioned poachers usually want.303 rifles for killing rhinos, but the fad for possessing computerized firearms, especially AK rifles, has extra to do with self-protection. "A .303 rifle for a sharpshooter in poachers' gang is an ideal firearm to gun down a rhino. The reason behind going for automatic rifles by poachers is only to protect themselves from forest guards in case a gang is caught in a crossfire," a wildlife crime professional mentioned.
In June this yr, several poachers together with Mujibur Ali and Jakir Hussain of Dalgaon in Darrang district had been arrested with one AK-56 rifle, one .303 rifle, a silencer and ammunition.
Poaching attempt foiled near Kaziranga, 2 arrested
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