Click to play videoNew Delhi: From 600 deaths in national highway 37 in 1983 to 12 this year till now - the number has certainly come down. Yet the road is a death zone for animals of the Kaziranga National Park.
The signboard message of caution is being ignored every day and night on National Highway 37 that runs along the length of the Kaziranga national park in Assam.
And almost every week this time of the year, the night patrol encounters animals killed by speeding vehicles.
The forest guards on night duty are not best equipped in numbers or equipment but are trying their best nonetheless.
Forest Guard Rupak Bhuiyan says, "In the flood season, animals come out from the park, then we control the speed of cars and protect animals."
Adding strength to them are two NGOs - Kaziranga Wildlife Society and Bhumi.
Dilip Gogoin from Kaziranga Wildlife Society says, “We are protecting the animals who are crossing the road from park side to other side, where no water is there."
"We distribute pamphlets where we mention what to do in the animal corridor," member of the Bhumi organisation Uttam Saikia says.
But such help is not enough as everyday the animals fight for life escaping danger while trying to move to safer ground near the highway or simply crossing the road.
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