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PM Modi Launches 'Project Rhino' for Conservation, Targets Kaziranga to Dudhwa
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News18•23-09-2026, 11:33
PM Modi Launches 'Project Rhino' for Conservation, Targets Kaziranga to Dudhwa
- •Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced 'Project Rhino' on World Rhinoceros Day to provide financial and technical support for the conservation of the greater one-horned rhinoceros.
- •The initiative focuses on protection, habitat management, genetic improvement, and understanding population dynamics across range states.
- •PM Modi highlighted Assam's significant role, noting it holds nearly 80% of the world's rhino population, with Kaziranga's anti-poaching efforts widely praised.
- •The project will formalize and scale up India's wildlife management, building on successful conservation in Assam, West Bengal, Bihar, and the reintroduction program in Dudhwa, Uttar Pradesh.
- •Key focus areas include enhancing anti-poaching measures, restoring grasslands and migration routes, monitoring population genetics to prevent inbreeding, and scientific tracking of population changes.
Key Questions Answered
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced 'Project Rhino' on World Rhino Day to provide financial and technical support to range states for the protection, habitat management, genetic improvement, and conservation of the greater one-horned rhinoceros.
The core focus areas of the initiative include protection and anti-poaching measures, habitat management involving grassland restoration, genetic improvement to prevent inbreeding, and population dynamics tracking through scientific methods.
Assam currently holds nearly 80 percent of the world's rhino population, with Kaziranga National Park receiving extensive appreciation for its successful efforts to end rhino poaching.
