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- The special protection force is trained to combat poachers and understand animal behaviour was deployed in the Kaziranga National Park (KNP).
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- Among the 82 member Special Rhino Protection Force (SRPF) eight are women.
- The SRPF is basically a tiger protection force named after the rhino since the threat of poaching is more for the one-horned herbivore.
- The special is also to work towards protecting tigers in the Tiger reserve.
- The recruits were trained at the Forest Guard School in eastern Assam’s Makum and have also underwent weapons training at the 9th Assam Police Battalion in Nagaon district.
- KNP is spread across spread across 430 sq.km, encompasses eight ranges under two wildlife divisions
(1) Eastern Assam and
(2) Biswanath ”” straddling the river Brahmaputra.
Source
The Hindu