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GUWAHATI
Distressed and orphaned by floods, 2 antheral rhinos returned to Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve connected Tuesday (January 20, 2026).
Five-year-old Chandra and four-year-old Kamal were rescued from the flooded parkland successful August 2020 and August 2021, respectively. Both had mislaid their mothers by the clip wood officials and conservationists reached them.
The 2 were provided exigency attraction astatine the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) astatine Kaziranga and hand-raised.
“The superior relation of CWRC involves rescuing flood-distressed and orphaned animals, caring for them successful a mode that they bash not make immoderate attachment to humans, and rehabilitating acceptable individuals backmost into the chaotic done protocols similar pre-release enclosures,” a CWRC spokesperson said.
Officials of the nationalist parkland — a UNESCO World Heritage Site with a halfway country of 430 sq. km — said a tract enactment committee was constituted aft support was obtained from Assam’s Chief Wildlife Warden nether the Wildlife (Protection) Act of 1972.
Rescued and hand-raised astatine a rehabilitation centre, 2 rhinos were released backmost successful Kaziranga National Park connected Tuesday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
The rhinos were moved to a pre-release site, wherever they volition beryllium habituated to surviving nether chaotic conditions earlier their last merchandise to roam freely successful the park.
The translocation cognition was overseen by a squad of veterinarians headed by Bhaskar Choudhury, the CWRC successful charge, and wood veterinary serviceman Sourabh Buragohain, on with experienced carnal keepers. Others who supervised the cognition included Kaziranga National Park’s tract manager Sonali Ghosh, divisional wood serviceman Arun Vignesh, wildlife experts Rathin Barman, Kaushik Barua, and Anupam Sarmah.
The CWRC was established successful 2002 arsenic a collaborative inaugural among the Assam Forest Department, the Wildlife Trust of India, and the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
The centre has rescued and handled 7,397 animals crossed 357 taxon to date, with astir 4,490 (65%) released aft treatment. These see 25 hand-raised rhinos, 23 of them returned to Manas National Park and 2 to Kaziranga earlier.
With Tuesday’s (January 20) release, the CWRC has 1 rhino calf nether its care.
