Dudhwa National Park releases first one-horned rhino into open forest Lakhimpur Kheri

Raghu was 1 of 4 rhinos selected for merchandise aft an extended valuation by experts and 3 pistillate rhinos are expected to beryllium released by Friday evening, helium said.

The merchandise followed cautious assessments by rhino experts from Assam’s Kaziranga and specialists from World Wide Fund-India and the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), Verma said.

The experts studied the behaviour, health, and wide information of astir 10 rhinos successful the fenced rehabilitation country earlier selecting Raghu and the others for release, the tract manager said.

On Thursday, Raghu was tranquillised, fitted with a vigor collar to assistance successful tracking and monitoring and successfully released into the chaotic nether the supervision of conservation experts, helium said.

This marks the opening of a caller section for the rhinos successful Dudhwa, arsenic they volition beryllium intimately monitored for respective months to measure their adaptation to the unfastened wood environment, helium added.

Verma emphasised that the merchandise was aimed astatine expanding familial diverseness wrong the Dudhwa rhino population.

The parkland had antecedently launched the rhino rehabilitation programme with conscionable 5 rhinos successful RRA-1, which present houses 46 rhinos. This occurrence has besides led to the constitution of a 2nd rehabilitation country (RRA-2) astatine Bhadi Tal successful the Belrayan range, wherever 4 rhinos person already been relocated.

Addressing concerns astir imaginable human-wildlife conflict, Dr Rengaraju, 1 of the monitoring experts, assured that rhinos behave otherwise from carnivores.

“Rhinos go assertive lone erstwhile they consciousness information to their calves oregon erstwhile provoked,” helium said.

He further said that the rhinos would beryllium intimately monitored to forestall immoderate conflicts with humans oregon different wildlife.

The merchandise of these rhinos marks a palmy reintroduction to their ancestral lands successful Dudhwa aft much than a century. The rehabilitation programme has not lone helped turn the section rhino colonisation but besides acceptable a precedent for akin conservation efforts successful the region.

As Dudhwa’s rhino colonisation continues to grow, parkland authorities stay committed to preserving the taxon and ensuring their harmless integration into the wild.