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India's rhino protectors are challenging views of conservation works

The park's aggressive policing is, of course, controversial, but the results are clear

A Rhino calf swims through flood waters  at Baghmari Village near Kaziranga National Park near Guwahati on Tuesday Photo: PTI
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A Rhino calf swims through flood waters at Baghmari Village near Kaziranga National Park near Guwahati on Tuesday Photo: PTI

Bhaskar Vira | The Conversation

In Kaziranga, a national park in north-eastern India, rangers shoot people to protect rhinos. The park’s aggressive policing is, of course, controversial, but the results are clear: despite rising demand for illegal rhino horn, and plummeting numbers throughout Africa and South-East Asia, rhinos in Kaziranga are flourishing.

Yet Kaziranga, which features in a new BBC investigation, highlights some of the conflicts that characterise contemporary conservation, as the need to protect endangered species comes into contact with the lives and rights of people who live in and around the increasingly threatened national parks. India