World Rhino Day: Why Assam is burning nearly 2,500 one-horned rhino horns

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The rhino horns were stored for decades in treasuries across Assam. (File) World Rhino Day on Wednesday, September 22, is being marked in Assam with a special ceremony by burning nearly 2,500 one-horned rhinoceros horns. The Assam Cabinet announced the decision last week after the forest department’s ‘rhino horn reverification’ exercises lasting weeks. The purposeThe … Read more