India's endangered one-horned rhinos are charging back from the brink of extinction with forest wardens roping
in villagers to combat poachers who have been killing the beasts for profit.
The sight of carcasses of two-ton rhinos littering the Kaziranga National Park in the northeastern Indian state of Assam
was common a few years ago, but rangers said the random killings have slowed down.
"Six to seven years back, nobody thought the rhinos would survive till 2003 with 100 animals perishing every year half
of them killed by poachers and the remaining dying of natural deaths," park warden N.K. Vasu.
