(IN) New anti-poaching camps to come up in Assam

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New anti-poaching camps to come up in Orang National Park

9 Sep 2009, 1551 hrs IST, PTI

 

GUWAHATI: Alarmed over rise in the poaching of highly endangered one-horned

rhinos in the Orang National Park in lower Assam, the government has decided to

set up five anti-poaching camps to protect the animals.

 

The state's forest minister, Rockybul Hussain, had ordered a high-level probe

following which chief conservator of forest, B S Bonal, D M Singh and deputy

chief conservator of forest A S Laskar, accompanied by superintendent of police

of Darrang and Sonitpur districts, visited the park on September 1.

 

After getting their report, the government ordered setting up of five new

anti-poaching camps in the current financial year along with two floating camps

in the river.

 

Twenty armed home guards would be deployed and one assistant conservator of

forest would be employed to supervise the anti-poaching measures, official

sources said.

 

While transferring the present divisional forest officer and the ranger of the

park, the government announced that in the line of the Kaziranga National Park a

coordination committee, comprising locals, district administration officials and

the Army, would be formed.