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Chitwan National Park completes zero poaching year

by Bharat Adhikari | 18-04-2018 13:46 recommendations 0

Chitwan National Park (CNP) has completed one year of zero poaching. Chief Conservation Officer at CNP, Bed Kumar Dhakal, said that CPN has been successful to celebrate zero poaching year with the support of all and that an arrangement has been made to patrol the area round the clock to prevent poaching.

 

A male rhino was killed by poachers at Dhubaghat of Belhatta Hariyali Community Forest of CNP on April 7, 2017. A plan to celebrate third year of zero poaching became unsuccessful last year after the rhino was killed 26 days before completion of the third year of zero poaching. Earlier to this, a rhino had been killed at CNP on April 22, 2014.

 

Dhakal added that a total of 50 permanent posts, 50 temporary posts and more than 20 mobile posts have been patrolling the CNP area on bicycles, motorcycles, four-wheelers, boats and elephants. The Nepal Army has been carrying out patrolling using real time patrolling technology. "As February to June is the ideal season for poachers, security has been beefed up."

 

Most of the places at CNP and buffer zone are under surveillance and high-ness has been adopted at more sensitive areas of CNP, said Battalion Chief of Batukdal Battalion, Samundra Thapa.

 

Similarly, Information Officer of CNP, Narendra Aryal, Buffer Zone Consumer's Committee, Poaching Control Youth Awareness Campaign and locals of buffer zone have been supporting the security of CNP.

 

As per statistics, the highest number of poaching cases was recorded in 2002. A total of 38 rhinos were killed that year. As per the latest census, there are 605 rhinos in CNP.

 

 

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4 Comments

  • Joon Ho Mentor says :
    Hello Bharat, I was really surprised after I typed in 'Chitwan Nepal Park' in Google, since I never knew this place was full of endangered species!
    Though several rhinos were killed during the project term, I personally think that zero-poaching project has been successfully performed!
    Hope priceless Chitwan Park gets protected like this for other species too :)
    If there is any other upcoming news about animals living in Chitwan Park, please tell us about them too!
    Posted 20-04-2018 01:59

  • Gyeongrin mentor says :
    Hello Bharat!
    I remember reading your report about the death of the last male northern white rhino. To save animals from further extinction people should care more about this issue. Hope people could be more aware of this issue. No more poaching!
    Thanks for the report~
    Posted 19-04-2018 19:54

  • Bhanubhakta Adhikari says :
    This post is one of the most appreciatable post that I have ever gone through. Thank you bharat brother for sharing this post. Hope the coming years will also have Zero Poaching. Friends of libya, Kenya Sudan please go through this post and I will be pleased if I happen to read the article from those place.
    Posted 18-04-2018 22:37

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