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Rhino Memorial
October 1 , 2022
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- Memorial made of ashes collected from rhino horns were unveiled at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam.
- The memorial having three rhino sculptures was named “Abode of the Unicorns”.
- It has one male rhino, a female rhino and a calf.
- It also has three statutes of forest guards, created using different materials.
- The rhino statues were created using ashes collected from around 2,500 rhino horns that burnt to flames by the Assam Government.
- On the occasion of World Rhino Day (September 22) last year, rhino horns were burnt cinders remotely using drones at the Kaziranga National Park.
- They were collected or seized over the past 40 years.
- Kaziranga National Park in Assam hosts the world’s largest population of one-horned rhinos.
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