Photo: An Indian one horned Rhino seen crossing a road inside the Kaziranga National Park, on February 13, 2017 in Assam, India. Photo: Anuwar Hazarika/Barcroft Images / Barcroft Media via Getty Images.
Deep in the heart of Assam, India, Kaziranga National Park is home to two thirds of the world’s great one-horned rhinoceroses. A World Heritage Site, Kaziranga is a conservation success story. When it was founded in 1908, there were only a handful of rhinoceroses left as big-game hunters and poachers had decimated a once-thriving population.
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Today, Kaziranga is home to more than 2,400 rhinoceroses. How did the park achieve this incredible conservation feat? Simple. The government has protects park rangers from prosecution if they shoot and kill people in the park.
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A new BBC investigation uncovers a controversy surrounding these extreme conservation methods. The BBC quotes a park ranger, Advesh, as explaining, “The instruction is whenever you see poachers or hunters, we should start our guns and hunt them.”
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