Rhino Fate in Trouble : Study on Conservation and Management issues of Kaziranga National Park, Assam

摘要

The Rhino have existed on top of the globe intended for more than 40 million years and contain a wonderful record. The surviving Rhinos are precious representatives of the splendid heritage and history of the Rhino family unit taking place our earth.The viable utilization of Rhinos in Africa as well as Asia is immobile ongoing as this animal carries horn appeal its worth akin to gold. Seeing as last 35 years poaching has caused death of a lot of Rhino into this earth and has show the way every one the species of Rhino into struggle for existence. According to the CITES the three of the five species, the black rhinofD/ceros bicornis), Javan rhino (Rhinoceros sondaicus), Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) are slowly and steadily becoming critically endangered. Presently the black rhino and white rhino are two of the most charismatic mega herbivores left on our planet and have became the flagship species of International conservation. The greater one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis), scheduled as endangered species by IUCN and on Appendix I of CITES, has now been cramped hooked on a small number of confined populace adding together about 3000 animal in several parks in India and Nepal. At present Kaziranga National Park ( KNP), Assamis a significant conservation values of world's largest Indian or greater One-horned Asian rhinoceros, Asiatic wild buffalo and Eastern Swamp deer population. Subsequent to concerning 100 years of protection, the Kaziranga at the present hold up a possible population of 2329 rhinos by means of 5.65% an animal increase rate . The usual density of the rhino is 3.65/sq.km with highest density of 9.25rhinos/sq.km. in the western range of KNP. The populace of one rhino into the appearance two-third of theirwhole populace within the entire earth. According to specialist the bulk of tigers at Kaziranga is 32.64 tigers for each 100 sq.km. The uppermost into several know tiger habitat. Kaziranga is one of the main territory of protected terrain in the sub-Himalayan girdle, and owing in the direction of the company of extremely assorted and noticeable species, has been described as a "biodiversity hotspot". The Park has been complete and intended by means of divide national park rank to make available comprehensive environment for increasing the population of wildlife or, as a corridor for secure association of animals to Karbi Anglong Hills. The park is situated in the Indomalaya ecozone, and the most important biomes of the region are Brahmaputra Valley semi- evergreen forests of the tropical and subtropical mist broad leaf forests biome and a regularly flooded alternative of the Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands of the tropical and subtropical grasslands savannas, and shrub lands biome. The Park has beenshaped by means of alluvial deposit of Brahmaputra river and is a assortment of grasses interspersed by means of tropical wet evergreen and semi-evergreen forests and beels which create the area appropriate for rhino. Poaching , Erosion, encroachment, flood, siltation and Invasive species, however, are the major problems in Kaziranga's one -horned rhinoceros conservation. This paper aim of this arrangement is to evaluate the present condition of inhabitants, surroundings and conservation problems and tobuild up a comprehensive plan intended for the upkeep and management of rhino eternity.