20 Year of Kaziranga Wildlife Rehab Centre
Source : The Hindu
GS III : Environment
What is discussed under 20 Year of Kaziranga Wildlife Rehab Centre?
- Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC)
- Kaziranga National Park
Why in News ?
The Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) at Panbari near the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve has completed 20 years of providing emergency care, treatment and rehabilitation to indigenous wild animals displaced due to various reasons.
Key Facts
- The park provided shelter to more than 7,000 such wildlife in distress since its inception 20 years ago.
- The CWRC has become a model now in the field of wildlife conservation.
- Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve was awarded the Best Wildlife Destination in India
Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC)
- The only facility in India that raises and treats injured, orphaned wild animals of various types before releasing them back into the wild is the
Photo by Chirag Saini on Unsplash CWRC.
- It is Panbari Reserve Forest near Kaziranga National Park launched in 2002
- The area handled 7,397 animals out of which 4,490 (65%) could be sent back to the wild after proper care and treatment.
- This including elephant, leopard, rhino, tiger, clouded leopard, black bear, wild buffalo, hog deer, muntjac, wild boar and monkeys.
- Rhino and Elephant Rehabilitation.
- CWRC has been rehabilitating rescued rhino and elephant calves.
- One of the most successful programmes for orphan animals and a critical conservation success.
Kaziranga National Park
- It is located in Northeast Indian state of Assam The park is approximately 40 km (25 mi) in length from east to west, and 13 km (8 mi) in breadth from north to south.
- It is a world heritage site, notified by the UNESCO in 1985.
- World’s largest population of the greater one-horned rhinoceros is seen in this park.
- The park is a shelter to endangered Royal Bengal tiger and the Asian elephant.
- Brahmaputra river flowing through this region.
- Another important fact is that Kaziranga contains significant breeding populations of 35 mammalian species of which 15 are threatened as per the IUCN Red List.
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