About 100 vultures have been found dead and many critical at Milanpur, Chaiygaon.
The doctors and field staffs are trying their best to treat the critical ones
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- Release of the vultures back to the wild after treatment. The vultures were affected due to poisoning under Sivasagar Division. @CMOfficeAssam @cmpatowary @mkyadava
00:00 - A tiger that had strayed out to Umananda has been successfully darted by team from @assamzoo headed by DFO, Zoo @CMOfficeAssam @cmpatowary @mkyadava
- Somewhere amidst the jungle inside the Eastern Range @kaziranga_ ‘Borali’ fishes…. @kaziranga_ an excellent-breeding ground for fishes @ParimalSuklaba1 @CMOfficeAssam @mygovassam
00:00 - Right of Way !! ……..Herd of Elephant crossing Kanchanjuri Corridor, Kaziranga National Park VC: @rathinbarman @CMOfficeAssam @cmpatowary @mkyadava @kaziranga_
00:00 - Four beaks of majestic hornbill – 3 Greater hornbill & 1 Oriental Pied hornbill – were seized from Mariush Munda of Udalguri during a raid by RPF at Rangapara rly station & handed over to Central RO, Sonitpur West Divn. Appreciate @rpfnr_ efforts in controlling wildlife crimes!
- Another successful rescue and reunion! An abandoned #elephant calf, rescued from a pit in Borbeel TE early this morning, was reunited with its herd after careful tracking & coordination by forest staff at Kathanibari, Borgang under Sonitpur East Forest Divn, Biswanath Chariali.
00:00 - The remarkable success of Assam's conservation efforts in the words of Dr Sonali Ghosh, IFS, Field Director of Kaziranga National Park & Tiger Reserve:
- Existence of Asiatic golden cat (Catopuma temminckii) in Manas National Park was reconfirmed after being captured in camera trap in 2019 & 2021, as reported in @IUCN newsletter CATnews recently. After a direct sighting in 2007, camera traps from 2011 to 2018 yielded no result!
- A leopard was admitted at Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation, Bokakhat with a deep cut injury from Jorhat. Surgery was carried out and the leopard is now under treatment. @cmpatowary @mkyadava @wti_org_india
- 1st addition to Burhachapori Wildlife Sanctuary, Kaziranga Tiger Reserve @CMOfficeAssam @cmpatowary @mkyadava
- Under the leadership of Hon’ble CM Assam @himantabiswa, Assam Forest department pledges to conserve India's National Heritage animal. Forest of Assam is endowed with one of the highest population of Asian Elephant @PMOIndia @moefcc @CMOfficeAssam @byadavbjp @cmpatowary @mkyadava
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