Authorities in India’s remote northeast will deploy a hundred armed guards to a protected game reserve after poachers killed a rare one-horned rhinoceros—the fourth this year—at the park, a senior official said Wednesday.
“We are alarmed at the seemingly organized poaching by gangs at the Kaziranga National Park,†Assam state Forest and Environment Minister Rockybul Hussain said.
Rhino Poaching Rise Spurs India to Deploy Armed Guards
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