| Forest Guards - Pythons! Nov- 27
These are the forest guards who could creep out from the dark and
damp bush or for that matter slither down from the tree top without
the slightest noise. And they are cool and deadly if they indeed
strike. They are the newest and very unlikely sentinels of the Reserved
Forest in South Tripura - eight huge pythons. Forest department
had been facing a problem of illegal timber smuggling from their
160 hectares teak plantation at Garjanmura RF in Radhakishorepur
for
quite some time. But of late they noticed the timber felling had
mysteriously reduced to a great extent though there were not any
special measures from department as such.
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Majuli to get 'World heritage site' status Guwahati,
Nov 27
The world's largest river island, Majuli, situated in Upper Assam
is all set to get the status of World heritage site. A group of
experts from UNESCO is presently camping in the river island to
evaluate this River Island's claim to the heritage site.
The largest river island, which is the sheet anchor of the Vashnavite
culture in Assam, is facing massive erosion due to the sudden change
in the course of the river Brahmaputra.
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