India’s rhino stronghold of Assam reported zero deaths due to poaching among its populations of greater one-horned rhinos in 2025.
The success replicates that seen in 2023, another year in which poachers claimed no rhinos.
Himanta Biswa Sarma, the Chief Minister of the state of Assam, akin to a US governor, said it was “a proud moment for us,” but added that other inspiring wildlife reports emerged in 2025.
This included the sighting of a dhole, or Indian wild dog—the first in the state’s Kaziranga National Park in 35 years. In Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, it was the dhole, not the tiger, that was most feared by the animals of India.
In addition to the dogs, a lighter tiger, known as a “golden tabby tiger” was spotted in the park.
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India is now home to some 4,000 rhinos, having once fallen to as low as 1,800 individuals. Almost all of these are located in Assam, but efforts to reintroduce the animal to areas they once inhabited has had mixed-to-bad results. Native to the subcontinent, they would have lived as far west as Peshawar, Pakistan.
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