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Article and images (SOURCE International Fund for Animal Welfare)
The Greater One-Horned Rhino Returns to Manas National Park Twenty-five years ago, the population of greater one-horned rhinos in Manas National Park had been reduced to zero. Today, 54 rhinos roam the park and are successfully breeding in the wild. Following a period of civil unrest in the region when onehorned rhinos were poached to local extinction, two of the world’s leading conservation organizations and the Assam government launched a first-ofits-kind initiative in the early 2000s
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to re-establish the population of wild rhinos in Manas National Park. For over 15 years, orphaned or injured rhino calves have been rescued and brought to the Center for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) during the annual floods in Kaziranga National Park. The calves are given 24/7 care and rehabilitated until they are able to be translocated to Manas National Park and released back to the wild.
