Three lifeless rhinos have risen from the ashes of the most conspicuous part of the herbivore, at the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve.
- Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on September 24 unveiled a memorial to the greater one-horned rhino and the forest guards the 1,300 sq. km tiger reserve owes its existence to.
- The memorial named ‘Abode of the Unicorns’, which took six months to complete, is at Mihimukh, the main entrance to the park in Kohora, one of the five ranges of the Eastern Assam Wildlife Division. Kohora is about 200 km east of Guwahati.
- The ash collected from the burning of a stockpile of 2,479 rhino horns, seized from poachers and smugglers and collected from animals that died naturally, was used in the concrete mix to create the life-size rhinos – a 10.5-foot-long and 6-foot-tall male, an 11×5.6 foot female and a 3.5×1.5 foot calf.
