A saint and the Brutalities of the mankind to the innocent !!
Vavani-With love for Pori, from Washington. Pori, a six-year-old female rhino at the Assam state zoo, on 19 Aug 2008, found an NRI from Assam, Mr.Vavani Sarmah,originally from Hazarikapara of Mangaldai, to take care of her for the next year. “I would have loved to adopt her for a lifetime but rules say it can be done only for a year,” Sarmah, an entrepreneur, said. Sarmah is a computer science graduate from Jorhat Engineering College. He left for the US in 1998 and started a software company, Clearwin Technologies, in 2005. Pori was born in the zoo on June 6, 2002. Her mother Baghekhaiti was from Kaziranga while father Vishnu belonged to 
the zoo. Sarmah, an avid animal lover who arrived here in the beginning of this month, met divisional forest officer Narayan Mahanta to know about the programmes at the zoo. “I was keen to do something for wildlife conservation and was interested in adopting an animal. When I found that the zoo had such a programme, I got the details and decided to adopt Pori,” he said. Expressing concern over thekilling of rhinos in Assam, Sarmah said people should be aware of the importance of the state animal. “Last year, the pictures of rhinos killed by poachers had shocked everybody,” he added. Sarmah, who was accompanied by his family, handed over a cheque for Rs 1 lakh to the zoo authorities for the upkeep of the rhino. The money would mainly cover the cost of Pori’s diet.
Sarmah plans to develop a website on Pori so that people around the world know about her. He also plans to make a DVD on the state zoo. Dispur had approved the animal adoption programme at the zoo recently to get more people to adopt animals. In July, Parul Devi Das, the additional chief secretary adopted Dhundhun, the stump-tailed macaque, for a year. “I hope no rhino gets killed from next year,” Sarmah, who is also on the board of Friends of Assam and Seven Sisters (FASS), said. He hoped that all the 750 animals in the zoo find adopters and added that the FASS would try to get people to adopt these animals
the zoo. Sarmah, an avid animal lover who arrived here in the beginning of this month, met divisional forest officer Narayan Mahanta to know about the programmes at the zoo. “I was keen to do something for wildlife conservation and was interested in adopting an animal. When I found that the zoo had such a programme, I got the details and decided to adopt Pori,” he said. Expressing concern over thekilling of rhinos in Assam, Sarmah said people should be aware of the importance of the state animal. “Last year, the pictures of rhinos killed by poachers had shocked everybody,” he added. Sarmah, who was accompanied by his family, handed over a cheque for Rs 1 lakh to the zoo authorities for the upkeep of the rhino. The money would mainly cover the cost of Pori’s diet.
Sarmah plans to develop a website on Pori so that people around the world know about her. He also plans to make a DVD on the state zoo. Dispur had approved the animal adoption programme at the zoo recently to get more people to adopt animals. In July, Parul Devi Das, the additional chief secretary adopted Dhundhun, the stump-tailed macaque, for a year. “I hope no rhino gets killed from next year,” Sarmah, who is also on the board of Friends of Assam and Seven Sisters (FASS), said. He hoped that all the 750 animals in the zoo find adopters and added that the FASS would try to get people to adopt these animalsThe brutal killing of baby rhino's at Kaziranga national park sparked worldwide on the existance of these precious animal.We need to create awareness to save and protect them.
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