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Counting rhinos
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Population of the one-horned species has gone up in the Kaziranga Park.
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About Rhino in India:
- The 14th rhino census was completed at the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve.
- All eyes are on the rhino population at the UNESCO World Heritage Site as devastating floods had swept Kaziranga since 2018, when the census was held previously.
- From then to 2022, 400 rhinos died from natural and other causes, though poaching have significantly come down.
- In the 2018 census, 2,413 rhinos were found in Kaziranga. But this time, 2,613 were counted.
- The Indian rhinoceros also called the greater one-horned rhinoceros and great Indian rhinoceros is a rhinoceros species native to the Indian subcontinent.
- It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
- The Indian rhinoceros once ranged throughout the entire stretch of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, but excessive hunting and agricultural development reduced its range drastically to 11 sites in northern India and southern Nepal.
- It inhabits the alluvial grasslands of the Terai and the Brahmaputra basin.
- The Indian rhinoceros is regionally extinct in Pakistan.
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