The flood in Kaziranga National Park Damaged 44 Anti-Poaching Camps
According to the National Park authority sources, the flood water in Kaziranga National Park has submerged around 15 percent of the Tiger Reserve areas.
The flood has damaged as many as 44 anti-poaching camps built at the Kaziranga National Park. The park authority has informed that 44 out of 223 camps of the reserve area have been inundated by the flood waters of the Brahmaputra River that hits every year. The department has taken all safety measures to protect the wildlife species of Kaziranga.
It is important to note that out of 44 camps, 14 are under the Agratoli wildlife range, eight under the Biswanath wildlife division, six under Kaziranga and Burhapahar range, and five under the Bagori range.
It is very sad to hear that forest officials have reported five causalities of animals. Four wild animals including a leopard and three Hog deer were killed and one died under treatment.
Seeing the probable flood situation in Kaziranga National Park and to save human lives as well as the lives of wildlife species during the emergency situation, the Bokakhat sub-divisional magistrate has imposed various restrictions, regulated the speed of vehicles in the exercise of the powers conferred U/S 144 Cr. P.C. in the stretch of NH-37 starting from Panbari animal corridor to district/sub-divisional western boundary near Bagori.
The Berenga Betukandi area too was flooded. The entire area is now flooded after an embankment of the Barak river was washed away. Last year, floods and resultant landslides in Assam have caused 62 lives this year so far. In the last 24 hours of reporting, eight people died after drowning in flood waters – two in Barpeta and Karimganj districts, one in Darrang, Hailakandi, Nalbari and Sonitpur districts and eight people are still missing.
