Three rhinos poached in India’s Kaziranga National Park – Brutal cruelty

September 2012. The northeast Indian province of Assam, which has been reeling under unprecedented floods for a week, has received media headlines for another reason. A full-grown female rhinoceros had her horns chopped off by the poachers, while the animal was still alive.

The one-horned rhino left Kaziranga National Park on the night of September 25 because of flood inside the forest reserve, when the poachers shot her.

Still alive
The employees of State forest department discovered the dehorned and heavily bleeding rhino the next morning, by which time the rhino was still alive but must have been in agony.

Despite being shot, and having her horns cut off, this rhino is still alive.

17th attack this year
This is actually 17th gruesome attack on the endangered rhino in the world-famous Kaziranga park this year. The park, with nearly a core area of nearly 420 square kilometres, shelter more than 2500 one horned rhinos, out of a world population of 3000.

Kaziranga, the picturesque forest reserve, usually loses 5 to 10 rhinos every year for natural reasons, but witnessed the death of 19 rhinos in the floods in June.

Two other national parks, Pabitora and Dibru-Saikhowa, are also being inundated by the flood water.