Rohit4Rhinos

• 06 Jan 2020

• It was a campaign launched on World Rhino Day on September 22 by WWF India and Animal Planet with Indian cricketer Rohit Sharma as the face of the programme to help build awareness for the need to conserve the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros or the Indian Rhino.
• It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
• It is the state animal of Assam.
• There are an estimated 3,500 Indian rhinos left in the world, out of which 82 per cent are found in India.
• Once found abundantly across the Indus, Ganges and the Brahmaputra river basins, the animal is now found only in select pockets in Assam, West Bengal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.