CLIMATE CARE - NORTHEAST INDIA

By MONOJ GOGOI Iman's death on November 23, 2019 is a big blow to the existence of the Sumatran Rhino (Dicerorhinus Sumatrensis) species. Iman, a 25-year old female and the last Sumatran rhino in Malaysia. The Sabah government officials claim Iman's death was natural but she had uterine tumour when she was captured from the wild in 2014. Tam was the last Sumatran rhino in Malaysia who died in May this year at the age of 30 year in the same Malaysian sanctuary Borneo. Sumatran rhinos, also called "hairy rhinos", enlisted in the red list as "critically endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). According to the IUCN only fewer than 80 Sumatran rhinos exist in the rainforests of Indonesia. But according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)'s estimation, the population of this species as low as 30. Once this species roamed all over the rainforests of Asia. Unfortunately now the Sumatran rhino

LEARN CLIMATE CHANGE IN ASSAMESE Climate change is not only an environmental issue but now it becomes a serious global political issue. In the last two decades, in most countries, including the United States of America, United Kingdom, Germany etc,  political leaders placed the issue in their election promises too. Many debates have been going on across the world. But time for debate has gone, now it is the time for action. Still some developed countries, large amount of CO² emitters - particularly the USA and China are reluctant to agree the recommendations of International Treaties. It is very unfortunate. The scientific communities have already proved the impacts and in various localities of the world people started to experience it. Most of the people still unaware of the climate change and it's impacts because most of the people do not find readable materials on the topic in local languages. In Assam, a northeastern state of India, one can rarely find an Assamese boo

The vulnerable greater one-horned rhino's population growth rate is really a success story in the Indian sub-continent. MONOJ GOGOI The greater one-horned rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis) also known as Indian rhino is one of the largest herbivore mammals and on the planet. This one-horned rhinoceros is also the second heaviest, weighs 4,000-6,000 pounds, among the rhino species in the world while the heaviest rhinoceros is white rhino of Africa. The height of this dense protective skinned pachyderm is 5.75-6.5 feet and the length is 10-12.5 feet. Due to the loss of habitats, such as fragmentation of forests, tropical and sub-tropical grasslands, riverside forests, Savannah, decreasing of swamps, excessive poaching for it's horns, the population of the greater Indian rhino once declined sharply and restricted to only some foothill areas of the Himalayas, particularly in India and Nepal. And some rhino populated areas in these regions are still not secure from poachers; and i

UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION REVEALS ASIAN ELEPHANTS ARE FACING HUGE THREAT FROM POACHERS MONOJ GOGOI The elephant population is decreasing drastically due to habitat loss, forests fragmentation, traditional migratory routes blockade due to agricultural or other developmental activities outside protected areas. Therefore man-elephant conflicts are also increasing in many parts of the world. Due to high monetary value of ivories, skins and some other limbs of the body in international markets, the African and Asian elephants became easy prey of the poachers. But trading of ivory was internationally banned in 1989 and it could not help in distracting the poachers eyes from the pachyderm. The Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus), classified as endangered according to the International Union of Conservation for Nature (IUCN), faces huge threat from the poachers, particularly in Myanmar, but it doesn't mean that this species is safe in other South Asian countries. But Myanmar is