Hand-reared rhino gives birth in the wild

**whitestarling** Wed May 01, 2013 1:11 am

Hand-reared rhino gives birth in the wild
27/04/2013 16:55:39
I thought after all the bad news we are hearing on Rhinos, a little bit if good news would not go amiss, although its in India not Africa

Ganga, and now Dharati, are a part of the rhino reintroduction programme in Manas National Park, launched in 2006. Photo credit WTI
Hand-reared rhino gives birth in Manas National Park
April 2013. A rhino, hand-reared by humans and rehabilitated in India's Manas National Park as part of the species reintroduction programme, has given birth in the wild, for the first time in India.
Rescued from floods in 2004
The new mother, Ganga , was rescued as a three-month-old calf during the annual floods in Kaziranga National Park in July 2004, by the Assam Forest Department. She was hand-raised by veterinarians and animal keepers at the IFAW-WTI-run Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) near Kaziranga.

Dharati's birth marks a milestone in the Rhino Rehabilitation Project, a joint venture of the Assam Forest Department and IFAW-WTI. Dharati's birth marks a milestone in the Rhino Rehabilitation Project, a joint venture of the Assam Forest Department and International Fund for Animal Welfare - Wildlife Trust of India (IFAW-WTI) that hand-raises orphaned or displaced calves to rehabilitate them in the wild.

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