Even as five animals are felled by poachers in a span of a few weeks, forest officials in Assam are positive that the Rhinoceros Unicornis population can be saved!
I f there can be anything that can, even momentarily, diminish the anguish that can be caused by an image of a dying rhino, its horn hacked off, it is perhaps the reassuring words of a man called MC Malakar, the chief conservator of forests (wildlife), Assam. Hounded by the public and Press alike, he has decided to go on the offensive. “What makes you even think that the gene pool of rhinos in Assam may be unsafe?” he shoots back, even before one can finish a question on whether the rhino is safe, given the department’s efforts to take it to the 3,000 mark by the year 2020, as stated in the Indian Rhino Vision 2020 plan. The tirade continues: “At a meeting recently, the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) demanded that I agree that we had failed in protecting the rhino. Why should I? Hasn’t the population of rhinos gone to over 2,000 at Kaziranga from a few dozens at the turn of the 19th century?”
According to an analogy that Malakar provides, “It is like trying to keep out all the mosquitoes using a mosquito net. No matter how hard you try, one or two will get in. It is simply not possible for us to put one guard behind every rhino there is in the state”. In terms of the threat to the Rhinoceros Unicornis, the “one or two”, incidentally, translates to a swarm of well-armed, well trained poachers who have brought down over 26 of these pachyderms over the past 17 months alone in Assam.
I f there can be anything that can, even momentarily, diminish the anguish that can be caused by an image of a dying rhino, its horn hacked off, it is perhaps the reassuring words of a man called MC Malakar, the chief conservator of forests (wildlife), Assam. Hounded by the public and Press alike, he has decided to go on the offensive. “What makes you even think that the gene pool of rhinos in Assam may be unsafe?” he shoots back, even before one can finish a question on whether the rhino is safe, given the department’s efforts to take it to the 3,000 mark by the year 2020, as stated in the Indian Rhino Vision 2020 plan. The tirade continues: “At a meeting recently, the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) demanded that I agree that we had failed in protecting the rhino. Why should I? Hasn’t the population of rhinos gone to over 2,000 at Kaziranga from a few dozens at the turn of the 19th century?”
According to an analogy that Malakar provides, “It is like trying to keep out all the mosquitoes using a mosquito net. No matter how hard you try, one or two will get in. It is simply not possible for us to put one guard behind every rhino there is in the state”. In terms of the threat to the Rhinoceros Unicornis, the “one or two”, incidentally, translates to a swarm of well-armed, well trained poachers who have brought down over 26 of these pachyderms over the past 17 months alone in Assam.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
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