The good news is that the flood waters of the Brahmaputra has started to recede from the Kaziranga National Park although about 50 per cent of the park still remains submerged. But the receding waters are exposing the aftermath of the disaster as carcasses have started to appear where the flood waters took their toll.?
In a report in the TOI, a total of 198 animals - including 16 rhinos - have been reported to have died in the floods.?
PTI
The floods have affected nearly 20 lakh people in at least 23 districts across Asssam. The situation remained critical on Monday with two more deaths reported, taking the toll to 31, according to agency reports.?
AP
During rescue operations conducted by the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC), eight rhino calves were saved from death along with some adults. The Centre is run jointly by the Wildlife Trust of India and the Assam Forest Department.?
EPA
Dr Panjit Basumatary, lead veterinarian at the centre told PTI, "A large number of the animals, as you would expect from the trauma they have undergone, are highly stressed. Several of the orphaned rhino calves in particular were injured and emaciated, and were initially not responding to our milk formula."
AP
These rhinos are suffering from pneumonia, a spokesperson from the WTI said. ¡°But the condition of the calves is improving,¡± he added.
EPA
A total of 108 animals have been saved from Kaziranga owing to rescue efforts of the CWRC. ?These include 62 hog deer, three eastern swamp deer, 10 Asian one-horned rhinoceros, and eight rhinos calves separated from their mothers.?
AFP
Kaziranga National Park is home to 35 species of mammals including 2,400 one-horned rhinoceros, 20,000 hog deer, 100 tigers, 1,000 elephants, 1,500 wild buffaloes and 1,000 swarm dear.