Yet another rhino killed in Kaziranga, poachers arrested.

29/12/2006 00:00:00 September 2007: Poachers killed a rhino and escaped with its horn from Kaziranga National Park(KNP); this is the 17th Rhino killed by poachers in Kaziranga this year.

The rhino was shot on near Dhoba Camp of the Agoratoli Range inside KNP in the north east Indian Assam state.

The recent floods in Kaziranga make rhinos vulnerable to poaching as they seek higher ground and move to the margins or outside the boundary of the park.

Poacher killed by rhino
In another incident, a poacher was reportedly killed inside KNP by an adult female rhino. Gaonbura Ronfar who had previous convictions for poaching, is thought to have been killed by a rhino protecting her calf.

Kaziranga details
Kaziranga National Park, located in the flood plains of the Brahmaputra river, is home to over 1,700 of the 2,000 surviving greater one-horned rhinocerous (Rhinoceros unicornis) apart from Asian elephants, tigers, many species of deer and the rare Asiatic wild buffalo.

Courtesy of the Wildlife Trust of India