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Symbiotic approach must for rhino protection: CM

By Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI, Jan 3 - Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has stressed the need for a symbiotic approach for protection of rhinos and urged all agencies to come forward and dedicate themselves to the mission of its protection.

Speaking at function organised to release a book, Rhino: Pride of Assam, at NEDFi House here today, Sonowal said that the job of protection of rhino should not be left to the forest department alone. Other departments should also come together to protect the Pride of Assam, he said.

Sonowal emphasised that the people of the fringe areas of the Kaziranga National Park and other rhino habitats should also be taken into confidence to build a deterrent against poaching.

The Chief Minister said the Kaziranga National Park is not merely a World Heritage Site but �an epicentre of wildlife tourism that sustains biodiversity and livelihoods of hundreds of people.�

�Rhino poaching has posed a challenge before us and we need to take a pledge to save rhinos from all the impending threats,� he maintained.

Speaking on the government�s commitment to bringing about an overall development in Assam, Sonowal stressed the importance of developing the State in sync with its ecology and harmony between the infrastructural and industrial development and added that the development of its ecology along with its unique ethnic and cultural traits should be the driving force to project Assam on the world map.

The book, published by Bookbell Group of Publishers and written by Partha Sarathi Mahanta and Joydeep Majumder, gives a vivid account of the one-horned rhino and conservation efforts.

Earlier, Environment and Forest Minister Pramila Rani Brahma gave a brief overview of the government�s efforts to protect rhinos from poachers. She informed that the government has gone all the way to recruit youths from the fringe areas for protection of rhinos, the advertisement for which has already been given. She added that in spite of poaching, rhino population in the State is on the rise.

Chief Secretary VK Pipersenia, DGP Mukesh Sahay and a host of other dignitaries were present on the occasion.

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