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Save Me:: My Horn is not Medicine

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A Beautiful Water Bird Busy On Search Food

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The Elephant Can Survive:: If Forest Can Survive

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An Elephant Family Visiting Nearby Buraburi Camp of Manas National Park Do Support to Conserve Asian  Elephant Habitats They need space, food, and love of human being. Save Elephant Save our Nature Heritage!!

Rhino's Eye: I found Love In Your Eye's

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    I  found love in your eyes dear rhino!! Yah it is really true for me. Such as no one can be, no one can hide anything, when he/she looks directly into someone's eyes. I feel you may feel empathy to look this rhinoceros eyes. How cool is this image of eyes? We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. This eyes also tells a thousand stories but it needs protection and secure future in our lonely planet. Do provide support for conservation of  rhinoceros. 

Village Women Group Busy on Fishing at Pahumara River , Katajhar , Manas NP

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Village Women Group Busy on Fishing at Pahumara River , Katajhar , Manas NP

Greater Adjutant Strok::Critically Endengered Bird Found In Manas

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A Group of the Greater adjutant stork in Manas NP. It is one of the critically engendered bird in the earth. (Photograph. MMES)

Nature Orienatation Initiatives at Kaziranga National Park

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 Pramila Rani Brahma and other designated person with students  Kaziranga  National Park is the pride of Assam and North Eastern States of India. I have recently visited Kaziranga to participate one unique student's awareness program at Bagori range(Western Range) of Kaziranga. This was the 10th anniversary of  Nature Orientation Initiative (NOI) of Kaziranga. It was beautiful moments to interacts more than 40 students from the remote fringe of Kaziranga. The objective of the program was to orient fringe village students about nature and conservation as well as provide guidance for the better path of life.  A View of Kaziranga  These students camped at Bagori range for about 3 days and learned basic of teamwork, communication skill, and guidance for the betterment of life in relation with nature.   During 3days period more than 20 resource person (including Honorable Forest and Environment Minister Pramila Rani Brahma ...

Initial Days:: One Glorious Decade at Manas National Park

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I have completed one decade at Manas National Park. I am hereby sharing some glimpses of experience from initial days.....                               Tracking Rhinos with Other Field Staff at Manas It is a very difficult task to track reintroduced animals in a novel environment. Moreover,  if animals released in a dense grassland habitat like Manas NP, Assam, India. Grassland habitat covered approximately  44% area of Manas NP and Which is more suitable for large herbivores like Rhino, Elephant, etc.                                Released Rhinos at Manas National Park First, two male rhinos were introduced in Manas NP on 12th April 2008. I still feel the reverberation of the first two released rhino's joyous moment at Manas NP.  After release, everybody left. I was then the main technical person ...

Mathanguri:Heritage Forest IB Manas NP

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The Bohag Bihu

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Bohag Bihu/ Rongali Bihu and Baishagu (in Bodo) is one of the main festivals of Assam. It is celebrated in the month of April when the Assamese New Year starts. It is the festival when the agrarian Assamese society gets ready for the next agricultural cycle. The festival is full of fun and joy and hence, it is also called Rongali.  Bohag Bihu or Rongali Bihu is the time when the boys get ready with their  dhol  and  pepa  to woo their loves in Bihu dance. It is the festival of dance and songs, visiting relatives, and neighbors seeking their blessing for the whole new year. On the first day of Bohag Bihu, all the cattle in a household gets special treatment. They are given ceremonial baths after smearing black gram and turmeric paste. This is a community ritual where all the cattle of a locality is taken to a community pond or nearby river. The small boys drive the cattle to the pond or river with two herbs,  digholoti,  ...

Nature Always Wears the Colour of Spirit

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                  Nature   Conservation is a State Harmony Between Land and                                                 Human Being                    Look Deep into Nature and then you will Understand                                                  Everything Better                 Because Nature Always wears the colour of Spirit !!                        Water is a driving force of Nature Thousand Have  Lived Without Love and Affection But No One                   ...

Mother and newborn Rhino calf at Beautiful Grassland Landscape of Manas

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  The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives because there's a  mutual dependency between it and million of other species of both animal and plants David Attenborough 

Beautiful Birds Of Manas ::White Winged Wood Duck

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White Winged Wood Duck Deep Inside Forest (Image_Jugal Bharali) White Winged Wood Duck ( Cairina scutulata) is the State Bird of Assam. It is one of the most threatened species in the world. It was widely distributed across the north-east India and South East Asia. But now few hundred survived in the wild of India, Bangladesh and Myanmar. It is commonly located in Nameri National Park of Assam. It was discovered in Manas in the year 2006 by Anuwarddin Choudhury deep inside the jungle. This discovery signifies uniqueness of avifauna habitats of Manas . It is commonly called as 'Ghost Bird' because of its unique 'Call'. In Assamese, it is called as 'Deo Hans' or 'Sprit Duck'. Many horror stories associated with this duck.  It mostly resides in the dense tropical evergreen forest and known to prefer inaccessible swampy areas formed by numerous rivers, streams etc. It is a Crepuscular bird as it is most active at dusk and dawn. Adults ...

Rainy Sky Over River Beki

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Rainy Sky Over River Beki

Wild Flower Blooming After First Shower of Pre-monsoon Rain at Manas

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Wild Flower blooming after the first shower of pre-monsoon rain 

Swamp Francolin::Threatened Grassland Bird of Manas

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A Swamp Francolin Charfuli Area of (Bansbari) Swamp Francolin ( Francolinus gularis)   is common birds of  Manas grasslands. This vulnerable birds can be observed all part of Manas even outside the protected areas. Crackling call (qua-qua-qua.....) of swamp francolin may create extraordinary pleasure silent evening in the Kuribeel, Charfuli, Rupahi and many other areas of Manas. It is large sized with comparatively long legs, the sexes are alike plumage. The upper plumage is brown barred with buff, and the outer tail feathers chestnut, but the throat is bright rust-red, and the rest of the upper parts brown longitudinally streaked with white. The bill is blackish, eyes dark and the feet dull red.  Roosted in thorny trees and builds its nest with grass and weeds and laid 4-6 eggs.  Manas is one of the strongholds for this threatened bird. Proper protection, scientific management of grassland habitat may provide a secure f...