Overview

• Remote cameras in the Amguri corridor recorded a lone dhole on six occasions, with images captured 375 meters from National Highway 37 and 270 meters from the nearest settlement.
• This marks the first confirmed presence of the endangered canid in the 25,000 square kilometer Kaziranga-Karbi Anglong Landscape since a 2011 sighting in Nagaland.
• The study documenting the rediscovery was published on June 26 in the Journal of Threatened Taxa by Wildlife Institute of India scientists.
• Dholes require extensive, undisturbed habitats, and their return underscores the need to protect and restore animal corridors within India’s Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot.
• Once widespread across Central and Southeast Asia, the dhole’s range has shrunk to less than a quarter of its historical extent due to habitat degradation, prey depletion, and retaliatory killings.