The Duars of West Bengal is the home to the second highest population of the One-HornedRhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) in the country after the Kaziranga National Park in Assam. In Duars the Garumara National Park and Jaldapara National Park are the two important geographical places for one-horned-Rhinoceros. The Rhinoceros’s number has increased in Duars. It has been raised from 8 in 1978 to 49 in 2015 in the Garumara National Park and from 72 in 1964 to 204 in 2015 in the Jaldapara National Park. At the number of male Rhinoceros have increased in Jaldapara and in Garumara National park of the Duars in recent years and therefore this has become a regular affair over the past few years’ male Rhinoceros engaged in an interspecies fight for female Rhinoceros. The smuggling of horn of the One Horned Rhinoceros has happened in a number of times in Duars of North Bengal in the recent past. The total population of Rhinoceros has been increased in Duars at one hand, death of Rhinoceros due to interspecies fight for female and poaching activities on the other hand. It gives a mixed conservative success of the foresters of Duars for One-Horned-Rhinoceros.
