India announced the launch of Project Rhino on Tuesday, a new scheme of central funding and technical support for the states that shelter India’s greater one-horned rhinos, arriving as Assam — home to roughly four-fifths of the world’s population — closed out 2025 with zero confirmed poaching deaths.
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Two orphaned leopard cat kittens, hand-raised from infancy by vets in Assam, took their first steps back towards a wild life this week — into an acclimatisation enclosure in Raimona National Park, with no radio collars and about a month left before the door opens for good.