{"id":58255,"date":"2016-09-02T02:17:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T09:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=58255"},"modified":"2016-09-02T02:17:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T09:17:33","slug":"meet-on-rhino-poaching-rhino-horn-verification-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/09\/02\/meet-on-rhino-poaching-rhino-horn-verification-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet on rhino-poaching, rhino horn verification process"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em> Nava Thakuria<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Guwahati:\u00a0 As the Rhino Horn Verification Committee, constituted by Assam government recently found few fake horns in the custody of the government, the issue of illegal trade of rhino horns has emerged as a burning topic for the people of Assam.<\/p>\n<p>In this context, Nature\u2019s Beckon and Journalists\u2019 Forum Assam (JFA) organize a Citizen\u2019s Meet on relentless rhino-poaching, illegal rhino horn trade and also the ongoing rhino horn verification process in Assam. The meeting, to be held at Guwahati Press Club on 1 September (Thursday), will start at 11 am and continue till 2.30 pm.<\/p>\n<p>The Citizen\u2019s Meet, where everyone concerned to the conservation of forest and wildlife has been invited, is expected to prepare a memorandum to the State and Union government in New Delhi drawing their immediate attention towards the protection of wildlife in all forest reserves including the world famous Kaziranga National Park.<\/p>\n<p>It may be mentioned that both Nature\u2019s Beckon and JFA raised the issue of fake rhino horns in the custody of the authority a decade back and later organized a Citizen\u2019s Meet in the city. More recently, both the organizations wrote to Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal demanding a high level probe against the poaching of one-horned rhinos in various forest reserves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Soumyadeep Dutta, Rupam Barua, Nava Thakuria for Nature\u2019s Beckon and JFA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nava Thakuria Guwahati:\u00a0 As the Rhino Horn Verification Committee, constituted by Assam government recently found few fake horns in the custody of the government, the issue of illegal trade of rhino horns has emerged as a burning topic for the people of Assam. In this context, Nature\u2019s Beckon and Journalists\u2019 Forum Assam (JFA) organize a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nava-thakuria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}