Male rhino with horn sawed off found in Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary

It was the death of another rhino in the Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary. The rhino was a male and its horn had been sawed off. Its carcass was lying in the Khoklong Khola area of the Sukna range of Mahananda. As per Forest officials, the discovery was made by forest guards in the course of their jungle patrolling. It had died a couple of days back and its horn was missing.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 9 November 2015.

The foresters have confirmed about an injury mark on the body, probably caused by a bullet. While the forest officials did not mention poaching but the missing horn is an indication that it had been killed by poachers for its horn.
However, that can be confirmed only after postmortem.
So far, 11 rhinos have been killed by poachers in the forests of north Bengal since April 2014.
It seems the rhino had strayed out of the Gorumara jungle about six years ago and had been wandering in adjacent forests near Siliguri. The founder of Himalayan Nature and Adventure Foundation has informed that the forest officials had been requested to maintain a watch on the stray rhino and had even proposed to the forest department to tranquillise the animal and shift it to Gorumara.

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