GUWAHATI: Rhino habitats and tiger reserves of the state, including the Kaziranga National Park (KNP), received a recent batch of automated firearms on Sunday, adding extra tooth to the anti-poaching power at the international heritage site.
Home to two-third of the sector's one-horned rhino inhabitants, Kaziranga has been bearing the brunt of poachers who kills the pachyderms for their horns, which might be in prime call for in illicit international markets for wildlife frame portions. Vietnam and China are main shoppers of rhino horns, the place it's used in conventional cures.
Chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal handed over about 1,482 other calibres of automated firearms to the woodland department at a proper function in Kaziranga's Kohra area.
Assam leader wildlife warden NK Vasu said the quantum of guns to be dispensed among tiger reserves, rhino habitats and other protected areas could be worked out later. KNP, Manas National Park and Orang National Park are tiger reserves in addition to rhino habitats. Pobitora wildlife sanctuary is also a rhino habitat, while Nameri National Park is a tiger reserve.
The firearms integrated 272 INSAS rifles, 954 SLRs, 133 12-bore pump motion weapons, 20 Nine-mm pistols and 91 ghatak rifles. The firearms have been later dispensed among frontline woodland staff from other protected areas. The guns that have been dispensed on Sunday have been procured from the Rs 10 crore allotted within the 2016-17 state finances for purchase of modern palms for the modernization of firearms for tiger reserves and rhino habitats.
Sonowal said the state executive has allotted Rs 10 crore within the 2017-18 finances for shopping extra automated firearms. The leader minister hoped with fashionable firearms woodland staff would be capable of curb the menace of poaching that has emerged as a big challenge to wildlife conservation within the state.
KNP by myself has misplaced six rhinos to poachers this 12 months up to now, while no less than 15 rhinos have been poached in Kaziranga last 12 months. Acknowledging that woodland guards have to execute tasks in extraordinarily tough scenarios, Sonowal assured his executive will take measures to handle their grievances.
Home to two-third of the sector's one-horned rhino inhabitants, Kaziranga has been bearing the brunt of poachers who kills the pachyderms for their horns, which might be in prime call for in illicit international markets for wildlife frame portions. Vietnam and China are main shoppers of rhino horns, the place it's used in conventional cures.
Chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal handed over about 1,482 other calibres of automated firearms to the woodland department at a proper function in Kaziranga's Kohra area.
Assam leader wildlife warden NK Vasu said the quantum of guns to be dispensed among tiger reserves, rhino habitats and other protected areas could be worked out later. KNP, Manas National Park and Orang National Park are tiger reserves in addition to rhino habitats. Pobitora wildlife sanctuary is also a rhino habitat, while Nameri National Park is a tiger reserve.
The firearms integrated 272 INSAS rifles, 954 SLRs, 133 12-bore pump motion weapons, 20 Nine-mm pistols and 91 ghatak rifles. The firearms have been later dispensed among frontline woodland staff from other protected areas. The guns that have been dispensed on Sunday have been procured from the Rs 10 crore allotted within the 2016-17 state finances for purchase of modern palms for the modernization of firearms for tiger reserves and rhino habitats.
Sonowal said the state executive has allotted Rs 10 crore within the 2017-18 finances for shopping extra automated firearms. The leader minister hoped with fashionable firearms woodland staff would be capable of curb the menace of poaching that has emerged as a big challenge to wildlife conservation within the state.
KNP by myself has misplaced six rhinos to poachers this 12 months up to now, while no less than 15 rhinos have been poached in Kaziranga last 12 months. Acknowledging that woodland guards have to execute tasks in extraordinarily tough scenarios, Sonowal assured his executive will take measures to handle their grievances.
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