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Kaziranga’s animals thrive, protected by guardians who battle life, destiny, animal attacks, and all so often, old age.
It’s November when across Assam, people dance the Raas, Krishna’s leela with his gopis. Within the forests of Kaziranga, there is no such celebration. Here, time stands almost still, as the rhino walks past leisurely into the waiting darkness, bathing in the moonlight.
In the beauty of it all, minutes earlier, the rhino, all three tonnes of it, had turned, staring at us kind of point blank. “See? That’s what it does before charging. And that is why you don’t turn off the engine…,” says Gogoi, the forest guard accompanying us on the ride through the sanctuary. As one drives back into the safety of the forest office, one is suddenly aware of the “other Kaziranga,” the real heroes who keep the sanctuary alive, well and thriving. Amol Das, wireless operator; had his leg chewed up by a rhino in the early 1990s. He has been waiting for a transfer for 20 years. His colleague Dineshwar Saikia who fell through a rotten blank in his camp out in the middle of the river during the floods is now disabled and can barely stand, leave aside rush to someone in case of a crisis. Down the road, in another camp a year to go for his retirement, Nilambor Bora won’t pose for a picture. “I am a blind man,” he says. Some years ago, Bora lost his left eye to an ailment. And yet is still there, gun in hand, guarding animals at the world heritage site. And just why is this happening? As many tell us, the old government apathy. Yet there is also the other side to it. “Our guards are people who known even the current of the Brahmaputra so well that they can tell you where poachers could come from on a given night,” says district forest officer D D Gogoi. “And this is a place where we cannot use a paramilitary force, or the army.” Why? “Because they would be tempted to shoot. There are instances when our guards have, even when trying to save a colleague, shot in a way that the animal isn’t harmed,” he says.
Yet there is so much that can be done. Kaziranga, says Amol Das, still does not have a designated doctor or a hospital, or the means to rush an injured person to hospital. And Kaziranga, as of now, still has half the number of guards it needs. Many of them are over 50 years old. The Home Guards who were posted there after the spate of poaching incidents are posted for six-month tenures, just not enough to become a real guard. How real? If you want to get a grazing rhino to pose, get a guard to make it do so. Shutting one nostril with a finger he does a wild, nasal “et et et…” and the rhino looks up. “That’s the sound of their calves,” the guard will tell you. And he can sniff out animals. A python smells like the “last bit of smoke from a cigarette that has just been butted out.” That real. Which is why Kaziranga’s rhinos have grown from five to 2,000, the park has the world’s largest population of Asiatic buffaloes and has the highest ecological density of tigers (86 in a space of 800 sq km). As DFO Gogoi says: “Our guards are great.” Take a bow guards of Kaziranga.
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Kaziranga’s animals thrive, protected by guardians who battle life, destiny, animal attacks, and all so often, old age.
It’s November when across Assam, people dance the Raas, Krishna’s leela with his gopis. Within the forests of Kaziranga, there is no such celebration. Here, time stands almost still, as the rhino walks past leisurely into the waiting darkness, bathing in the moonlight.In the beauty of it all, minutes earlier, the rhino, all three tonnes of it, had turned, staring at us kind of point blank. “See? That’s what it does before charging. And that is why you don’t turn off the engine…,” says Gogoi, the forest guard accompanying us on the ride through the sanctuary. As one drives back into the safety of the forest office, one is suddenly aware of the “other Kaziranga,” the real heroes who keep the sanctuary alive, well and thriving. Amol Das, wireless operator; had his leg chewed up by a rhino in the early 1990s. He has been waiting for a transfer for 20 years. His colleague Dineshwar Saikia who fell through a rotten blank in his camp out in the middle of the river during the floods is now disabled and can barely stand, leave aside rush to someone in case of a crisis. Down the road, in another camp a year to go for his retirement, Nilambor Bora won’t pose for a picture. “I am a blind man,” he says. Some years ago, Bora lost his left eye to an ailment. And yet is still there, gun in hand, guarding animals at the world heritage site. And just why is this happening? As many tell us, the old government apathy. Yet there is also the other side to it. “Our guards are people who known even the current of the Brahmaputra so well that they can tell you where poachers could come from on a given night,” says district forest officer D D Gogoi. “And this is a place where we cannot use a paramilitary force, or the army.” Why? “Because they would be tempted to shoot. There are instances when our guards have, even when trying to save a colleague, shot in a way that the animal isn’t harmed,” he says.
Yet there is so much that can be done. Kaziranga, says Amol Das, still does not have a designated doctor or a hospital, or the means to rush an injured person to hospital. And Kaziranga, as of now, still has half the number of guards it needs. Many of them are over 50 years old. The Home Guards who were posted there after the spate of poaching incidents are posted for six-month tenures, just not enough to become a real guard. How real? If you want to get a grazing rhino to pose, get a guard to make it do so. Shutting one nostril with a finger he does a wild, nasal “et et et…” and the rhino looks up. “That’s the sound of their calves,” the guard will tell you. And he can sniff out animals. A python smells like the “last bit of smoke from a cigarette that has just been butted out.” That real. Which is why Kaziranga’s rhinos have grown from five to 2,000, the park has the world’s largest population of Asiatic buffaloes and has the highest ecological density of tigers (86 in a space of 800 sq km). As DFO Gogoi says: “Our guards are great.” Take a bow guards of Kaziranga.
Pranab bora
For more articles, Click on IIPM Article.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
Read these article :-
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The Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM)
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