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New life at Assam’s Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary
It has the highest concentration of one-horned rhinos in the world and is often called ‘Mini Kaziranga’ due to similar landscape and vegetation.
Pobitora is popularly known as ‘miniature Kaziranga’ for its highest density of one horned rhino in Assam.
It is situated in the flood plains of River Brahmaputra in the district of Morigaon and 45 kms from Guwahati.
Once the grazing reserve of erstwhile Nagaon district, Pobitora came into limelight during 1961-62 for the presence of one horned rhino (Rhinoceros Unicornis).
