On World Rhino Day, 2,500 horns turned to ashes in Assam
Integrity Education, Delhi
23, Sep 2021
The “world’s largest stockpile” of rhino horns was consigned to flames in eastern Assam’s Bokakhat, the headquarters of the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve, amid Vedic rituals on Wednesday.
This event was aimed to convey to the world that rhino horns are just a mass of compacted hair and they have no medicinal value.
This was the second mass burning of animal body parts in eastern India.
A stockpile of rhino horns and elephant tusks was burnt in West Bengal’s Chilapatha forest (Alipurduar district) in 2005-06.
World Rhino Day
World Rhino Day is celebrated on September 22 every year
It celebrates all five species of rhino: Black, white, greater one-horned, Sumatran and Javan rhinos.
World Rhino Day was first announced by WWF-South Africa in 2010.