In Assam, Two Baby Rhinos Set To Return To Kaziranga National Park After 3 Years

Two rhinos named Krishna and Chandra, separated from their mothers, will be released into the Kaziranga National Park (Assam) after the central government’s permission. According to local 18 Assam, for three years, the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation And Conservation has taken care of these rhinos. They had left no stone unturned to take care and raise these animals who were separated from their mothers during the floods. Kaziranga Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre also assisted the CWRC in this matter. The doctors and the staff in these organisations had a good time caring and feeding these animals. The medical staff in these institutions were waiting for the central government’s nod to release these animals in Kaziranga National Park.

The Local 18 byte shows the workers at the CWRC and the Kaziranga Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre feeding these rhinos milk with bottles. They were allowed to feed on grass, grains and fruits as well. Proper care was ensured for preparing the beds of these animals as well. An officer from CWRC or the Kaziranga Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre informed News 18 about the other preparations for taking care of the rhinos.

Talking about CWRC, it is the only facility in India where orphaned or injured wild animals are hand-raised/treated and subsequently returned to the wild. Kaziranga Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre is the only prerequisite in India to successfully provide rehabilitation to 357 species of wildlife. These include the species of clouded leopard, wild boar, elephant, rhino, wild buffalo, leopard, monkeys, muntjac, and black bear.

Kaziranga National Park is a 430 square kilometre World Heritage Site. This place is home to approximately 1600 of the estimated total population of 2000 Greater one-horned rhinoceros. Besides the rhinoceros, many other species of mammals and birds are also present in this park. Annual floods had wreaked havoc in this part of the country and posed a threat to the survival of both animals and people here. The large-scale decimation of wildlife in the form of animal deaths ranging up to 650 in the floods of 1998 led to the concept of a wildlife rescue centre in Kaziranga.