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India: the endangered Indian rhino is reborn in Manas Park
India: the endangered Indian rhino is reborn in the Manas park – (France 2)
Long threatened, the animal is becoming less and less rare in India. In a park in the northeast of the country, there are around fifty.
It is a colossus that was thought to have disappeared. The Manas park today has around fifty Indian rhinoceroses, animals on the verge of extinction in the 1990s. Friends crisscross the park in a Jeep hoping to come across one. It is the hand-in-hand work of associations and Indian authorities that has made it possible to preserve this animal in this 39,000 hectare park. Over the past twenty years, dozens of endangered wildlife species have been transferred there.
Passage from 200 to 3,000 individuals
There are so many rhinos in the reserve that it only takes a few minutes for the site manager to find signs of their presence. The Indian Rhinoceros is a little smaller than its African cousin and has only one horn instead of two. The main culprits for the disappearance of the species are poachers. To dissuade them, the Indian authorities decided to employ them as forest guards. There were only 200 of these giants at the beginning of the century across all of India, today there are nearly 3,000
