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Wild Life Crime Investigation Training at Manas National Park

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Wild life crime cover offences that are committed against wild life( both flora and fauna) native or non native species. This also includes that habitat that wild life used and resides. Wild life crime is now a global concern. The world heritage committee also urged 191 state parties to the world heritage convention to ensure strong international collaboration and coordination to control the illicit trade in flora and fauna and their product. But there is an huge gape on grass root level protection staff's orientation on wild life law and crime investigation. Front line staff are not well trained to curb illegal wild life crime investigation and maximum staff have no proper knowledge on Wild Life Protection Law. So after any incident they are wandering how to proceeds for next level.  Field Training at Mathanguri(Indu-Bhutan Border) Theory session at Bansbari So we arranged this orientation training for selected staffs of  three ranges of Man...

Research Paper on Translocated Rhinos in Manas National Park

One of the key feature of my job is research publication. I also need them as a part of my doctoral research, which is in its last stage. This month, a paper on my doctoral research topic is published in reputed international journal- Journal of Threatened Taxa (JoTT). It is an open access and print, peer-reviewed, monthly international journal on conservation and taxonomy. The journal's ISSN is  0974-7907 (Online) and 0974-7893 (Print)  The title of the research paper is  A study on the behavior and colonization of translocated Greater One-horned Rhinos Rhinoceros unicornis  (Mammalia: Perissodactyla: Rhinocerotidae) during 90 days  from their release at Manas National Park, Assam India. The paper is authored by me and my Ph.D. guide as the second author. The research paper is the first of its kind of study on translocated rhinos in India. It is hoped that the paper will pave paths for the other researchers to study translocated rhinos from diff...