Photos
Rare shot
A tiger peeks through the foliage in the dense forests of Kaziranga National Park, on August 2, 2009. Kaziranga was declared a Tiger Reserve by the Government of India under the Project Tiger in 2006. The last census carried out inside the park in 2000 had counted 86 tigers.
Copyright:
Hemanta Kumar Nath
Caught in the floods
A group of one-horned rhinos in the floodwaters at Agaratoli under Kaziranga National Park, Assam on August 2, 2009. The 430 sq km sanctuary is home to the world's largest concentration of the greater one-horned rhinoceros. In all, 2,048 rhinos were found in Kaziranga National Park, followed by 84 in Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, 64 in Orang National Park, and five in Manas National Park, in the last census in the state. In all, 132 persons have been arrested for poaching 46 rhinos in Assam since 2006. Nine were poached in 2006, 21 in 2007, and 16 in 2008, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said recently.
Copyright:
Hemanta Kumar Nath
Caught in the floods
A one-horned rhinoceros in the floodwaters at Agaratoli under Kaziranga National Park, Assam on August 2, 2009. The 430 sq km sanctuary is home to the world's largest concentration of the greater one-horned rhinoceros. In all, 2,048 rhinos were found in Kaziranga National Park, followed by 84 in Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, 64 in Orang National Park, and five in Manas National Park, in the last census in the state. In all, 132 persons have been arrested for poaching 46 rhinos in Assam since 2006. Nine were poached in 2006, 21 in 2007, and 16 in 2008, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said recently.
Copyright:
Hemanta Kumar Nath
Caught in the floods
A one-horned rhinoceros in the floodwaters at Agaratoli under Kaziranga National Park, Assam on August 2, 2009. The 430 sq km sanctuary is home to the world's largest concentration of the greater one-horned rhinoceros. In all, 2,048 rhinos were found in Kaziranga National Park, followed by 84 in Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, 64 in Orang National Park, and five in Manas National Park, in the last census in the state. In all, 132 persons have been arrested for poaching 46 rhinos in Assam since 2006. Nine were poached in 2006, 21 in 2007, and 16 in 2008, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said recently.
Copyright:
Hemanta Kumar Nath
Caught in the floods
A one-horned rhinoceros in the floodwaters at Agaratoli under Kaziranga National Park, Assam on August 2, 2009. The 430 sq km sanctuary is home to the world's largest concentration of the greater one-horned rhinoceros. In all, 2,048 rhinos were found in Kaziranga National Park, followed by 84 in Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, 64 in Orang National Park, and five in Manas National Park, in the last census in the state. In all, 132 persons have been arrested for poaching 46 rhinos in Assam since 2006. Nine were poached in 2006, 21 in 2007, and 16 in 2008, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said recently.
Copyright:
Hemanta Kumar Nath
Notice
The Northeast Vigil website ran from 1999 to 2009. It is not operated or maintained anymore. It has been put up here solely for archival sentiments.
Parts of the old website, especially the extremely popular dams issue, have been resurrected. Other archived material will be uploaded here as and when I am able to salvage those. If at all.
— Subir Ghosh
Parts of the old website, especially the extremely popular dams issue, have been resurrected. Other archived material will be uploaded here as and when I am able to salvage those. If at all.
— Subir Ghosh
Notice
The Northeast Vigil website ran from 1999 to 2009. It is not operated or maintained anymore. It has been put up here solely for archival sentiments.
Parts of the old website, especially the extremely popular dams issue, have been resurrected. Other archived material will be uploaded here as and when I am able to salvage those. If at all.
— Subir Ghosh
Parts of the old website, especially the extremely popular dams issue, have been resurrected. Other archived material will be uploaded here as and when I am able to salvage those. If at all.
— Subir Ghosh