Thursday, 26 January 2017

This national park tracked down rhino poachers thanks to a selfie

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While India holds the notorious record of witnessing maximum selfie deaths in the world for two successive years, here's one instance where selfies have actually turned helpful. 

The Assam Police has tracked down two poachers through the selfies clicked inside Kaziranga National Park in northeastern India. The duo had allegedly killed a female rhino in June last year, and were arrested on Wednesday in central Assam’s Nagaon district, the Hindustan Times reported.  

The Kaziranga National Park is a UNESCO world heritage site and houses two-thirds of the planet's great one-horned rhinocerosThere are 2,401 rhinos in the sanctuary of which nearly 800 are females.  Read more...

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from Mashable

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