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The floods in Assam have affected 8 lakh people, leaving 14 dead. About 1.5 lakh people have sought shelter in the 150 camps opened by the state government. But the challenges are substantially higher for forest guards at Assam's Kaziranga National Park. Not only are their camps inside the forest flooded, they also have to ensure the safety of the critically endangered one-horned rhino. There are about 2,000 of the one-horned rhinos in Khaziranga, their only home in the world. Most of the rhinos moved to higher ground within the park to avoid the rising waters. This has brought them closer to human habitations, making even more vulnerable to poaching than they already are. To make the job of protecting these rhinos even more difficult, over 20 forest camps, the backbone of all operations w
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