Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve saw over 64000 tourist since its opening in Oct 2020

 Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve, famed for the one-horned Indian rhinoceros.

UNESCO World Heritage site, usually remains closed between June and September because of the annual floods and reopens in November.

park authorities could successfully restrict rhino poaching with only two rhinos poached in the year 2020

In September 2020, the Assam government had approved the seventh, eighth and ninth additions to the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve. Each addition increased some hectares of land to it.

 As a part of the water conservation in 2020, five additional wetlands - Chirakhowa, Potahi, Deosur, Haldhibari and Banderdubi - were created which are huge and serve as habitats.

Source : The Hindu


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Earth's rotational speed

  “Basically a nything that moves mass towards the center of the Earth will speed up the planet’s rotation, much as a spinning ice skater speeds up when they pull in their arms”, explained Ian Sample, science editor of The Guardian.  Tidal friction slows the speed. The moon is mostly to blame for the effect: the gravitational tug slightly distorts the planet, producing tidal friction that steadily slows the Earth’s rotation. To keep clocks in line with the planet’s spin, the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations body, has taken to adding occasional leap seconds in June or December , most recently in 2016. However, even without adding leap seconds, if Earth spins faster, it could result in GPS satellites becoming useless, as  a half-a-millisecond equates to 10-inches or 26 cm at the equator there are also potentially confusing consequences for smartphones, computers, and communications systems, which synchronize with  Network Time Protocol (NTP)...
Read more

The “Chandler Wobble”

 a lso known as the Chandler variation of latitude, the “Chandler Wobble” is a natural shifting of the Earth’s axis due to the planet not being perfectly spherical, and could be linked to the spinning speeds, three scientists wrote in The Conversation.
Read more