Assam burns over 2,500 rhino horns, creating a milestone towards rhino conservation

Name: Assam burns over 2,500 rhino horns, creating a milestone towards rhino conservation
Uploaded: 2021-09-22T00:00:00.000Z
Description: The population of one-horned Rhino plunged as they were hunted for sport or killed as agricultural pests.This species is so extinct that at the beginning of the

The population of one-horned Rhino plunged as they were hunted for sport or killed as agricultural pests.
This species is so extinct that at the beginning of the 20th century, India had only 200 wild greater one-horned rhinos.
Today, on the occasion of World Rhino Day, the Assam govt has initiated a step aimed at busting myths about rhino horns.
In a grand ceremony, the state govt burnt the stockpiles of the 2,479 rhinos' horns in six giant furnaces.
The rhinos' horns were burnt at Bokakhat which is in the Golaghat district, near KNPTR, creating a milestone towards rhino conservation.

Sarbananda Sonowal

Central Cabinet Minister

Assam BJP

Regional Party

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