Manas National Park to get two one-horned rhinos

GUWAHATI: Two orphaned one-horned rhinos will soon get a new home with the authorities planning to release them in Manas National Park, a world heritage site. The young male rhinos calves Maju and Raja, aged between three and four, were rescued by forest officials in Kaziranga National Park in 2008-09. While Maju was orphaned in February 2009 when his mother charged at a team of wildlife researchers and got killed by accompanying forest guards, Raja was found abandoned in 2008 inside Kaziranga National park, forest officials said here. The calves had since been looked after by Assam Forest Department and International Fund for Animal Welfare-Wildlife Trust of India. The process for translocation of the calves have already started and forest officials are making arrangements for carrying them through the 450 km road that separates the two world heritage sites in Assam, the officials said. (PTI