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Unlike in the stabilization yard, contact with the keepers shall be further minimized to avoid imprinting and reduce dependency on humans. Wherever possible, two rhinos will be allowed to share the same paddock for companionship and social bonding. Selection of site for in-situ rehabilitation The acclimatization shall be conducted at the proposed site of release itself. The release could be for the purpose of reintroduction or restocking. The task of selecting a suitable site of existing rhino habitat in Assam for eventual release of the animal will be left to the team Bringing Back Manas headed by the Project Leader of CWRC and representatives from Dept. of Environment and Forests, Assam, Wildlife Trust of India and conservation biologists from outside if any. The suitability of the proposed site will be evaluated using a standard proforma which will eventually be signed by the team members. The following criteria would be taken into consideration in selecting the acclimatization and release site. The area selected shall fall within the present or past distribution range of the species. The area shall be free from anthropogenic pressures like cattle grazing. It should ideally be far away from human settlements. Any fencing activity shall cause minimum 237
disturbance to resident wildlife in nature, the site selected shall not have any resident rhino which may either get disturbed or displaced due to fencing activities. The chosen site shall be within a protected area and enjoy adequate protection by the Forest Department personnel. The site should be approachable to the rehabilitators from translocation and monitoring point of view. Construction of the confinement paddock or boma The boma or the temporary captivity zone will encompass an area of not less than 3 acres, fenced with battery operated 7 feet high power fence consisting of 6 to 8 lines to prevent the entry of tigers, leopards and large herbivores. The enclosure shall have one or two gates, large enough to permit the entry of trucks for unloading the rhino. The boma will have all the necessary elements of a rhino habitat, viz swamp or water body for wallowing, adequate shade, and patches of tall and short grasslands in the middle for the rhino to rest at night. The boma will also contain elevated locations for the rhino to take refuge during during floods. A small camouflaged temporary field camp would be established near this confinement zone for the field staff to monitor the animal during the period of acclimatization. The animal will be in the boma for a period of one to three years until it is adequately habituated to the surroundings. Relocation of the rhino from CWRC to release site The relocation of hand-raised rhinos for restocking/reintroduction programs like the one being attempted at CWRC does not demand chemical capture as the animal can be lured into the truck directly. Captive rhinos have been made to walk directly into trucks (Suwal and Shakya, 2000). Consequently the need for drug-immobilization and the special sledge often employed to move the heavy animal into the crate may not be required. Nevertheless, the operation still requires meticulous planning and preparation. The animal will preferably be radio-collared before it is loaded into the truck. Drug immobilization and the use of sledge and crates will be considered only if efforts to load the animal into the truck fail. Rhinos have been captured from the wild, translocated and released to newer areas as part of conservation reintroduction programs in India and Nepal (Singh and Rao, 1984; Suwal and Shakya, 2000). Invaluable experience has been gained from these chemical capture and translocation operations and they all have been well documented. The rhino will be habituated to the crate for a period of at least 30 days. The crate shall have vertical sliding doors on both ends and adequate number of strong hooks or rings on all sides for tying and fastening with ropes. The recommended size of the crate will be 1.6% of the body dimension of the rhino. The floor of the vehicle would be placed at ground level by digging a small portion of the approach road of the animal paddock (see illustration below). A similar trench will be prepared at the release site also for unloading the animal into the boma. Once loaded the animal will transported to the release site under mild sedation to prevent anxiety during transit. Provision will be made, at the release site, for easy unloading of the animal. For this, a part of the soil will be dug so that the rear door of the truck can easily rest at the ground level (see illustration below). However, a crane will be employed to load the crate with the rhino into the truck. The vehicle will move at a speed not more than 40 km per hour. If the journey is long (more than 2-3 hours), the vehicle shall be 238 Bringing Back Manas
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BRINGING BACK MANAS Conserving the
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CONTENTS MESSAGES 5 PREFACE 7 ACKNO
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ROCKYBUL HUSSAIN Phone : (0361) 223
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The effort to bring back Manas was
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Manas’ wherein lodged within the
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parks, wildlife sanctuaries and res
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Introduction In 1996, the Supreme C
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Within the Bodo area of Assam, a
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However, the crucial and most signi
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One representative of the Forest or
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provisions shall “as far as may b
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According to Sec. 2(h) ‘local bod
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Local Biodiversity Fund Chapter XI
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Further, the Court issued various d
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economic decline will be feeding ea
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members of the tribal areas of Assa
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Profile of Bodoland Territorial Cou
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Table 2 District wise population di
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Table 4 Social Forestry Divisions F
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Terminalia bellerica, Schima wallic
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type of forest, grasses like Impera
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Introduction Land use and land cove
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46 Bringing Back Manas Fig.23 Break
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Table.10 Land use and land cover an
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Table.12 Land use land cover and it
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Table 14 Land use and land cover an
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Table 16 Land use and land cover an
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The land use characteristics and sp
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Tippet’s random number series wer
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Fig. 43 Occupational distribution b
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purchased (1.89%) or collected free
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(d) Grasses, Cane and medicinal pla
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Anecdotal surveys conducted by amat
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Fig. 63 Map showing land use and la
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Table 20 Shrub species diversities
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Table 22 Bird species diversities i
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Bird diversity Mean species richnes
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Fig.66 Map of the study area showin
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Fig 68 Map of study area showing lo
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Fig 70 Map of the study area showin
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The other ungulate of conservation
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It does appear that exotic weed suc
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Bengal. This area, with the excepti
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88 Bringing Back Manas Fig.82 Map o
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Introduction Forest resources play
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people do not own any forest area.
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Fig. 95 People's perception on init
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was responsible for conflict in all
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Fig.113 District wise variation on
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department. However, 14.29% of peop
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While the Greater Manas concept was
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twin paddocks were deemed essential
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Fig. 127 Blood collection after rad
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With the Chief Wildlife Warden of A
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crate. A long MS pipe, hooked on to
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On the day of relocation, on the 23
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the release area, a thorough diseas
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A daily record of the progress of a
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) Whenever visual contact was lost,
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The need for training frontline for
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national average on state PAs is 40
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1. Introduction Urbanization and en
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3. Mobile Veterinary support in Low
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encountered was the Burmese rock py
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fall sick. Very often, small health
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Morgan, E.R., Lundervold, M., Medle
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spirit of the Constitution (seventy
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Bringing Back Manas APPENDIX ‘A
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medium of instruction in educationa
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10. Additional development package
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Background and Objective 9.22.1 The
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Act should be reviewed to plug the
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As regards Mizoram, the Commission
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Clarification - term ‘State Gover
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transportation by Railways will be
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pattern obtaining in the State of H
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districts or regions concerned, and
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cases of the nature referred to in
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(2) If any dispute arises as to the
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(b) the Governor may, by public not
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(2) Any direction given by the Gove
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(hereafter referred to as the exist
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education and research, protection
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*Paragraph 10 has been amended in i
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espective districts, shall have pow
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