Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary. Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary on the southern bank of the Brahmaputra
in Morigaon district
in Assam, India. Wildlife Sanctuary holds one of the largest Indian rhinoceros populations in Assam
Under the Indian Rhino Vision 2020 (IRV 2020) which is a joint programme of the Department of Environment & Forests, Govt of Assam,
WWF India, the International Rhino Foundation and the US fish & wildlife service, six rhinos were translocated from Pobitora and re-introduced into the Manas National Park between
December 2010 and January 2011. Earlier, under the same programme, two rhinos were similarly translocated from
Pobitora to Manas National Park in 2008.
