CHITWAN: Poaching is a major reason that dwindled wildlife including rhinoceroses around the world. However, the case differs for the rhinos in the Chitwan National Park (CNP).
The national park has been celebrating the zero-poaching of rhinos for a few years. However, it has been witnessing deaths of the endangered animal due to ‘preventable causes’.
According to a record maintained by CNP, a total of 39 rhinos died so far in the current fiscal year due to some preventable and natural causes.
During the armed conflict in the country, poachers had killed 37 rhinos in 2058 BS. Since then, the poaching had gradually dropped and come under control.
According to the CNP Chief Conservation Officer Bed Kumar Dhakal, they are trying to identify the real factors leading to such preventable deaths.
Fights between male rhinos), falling from a mound of earth, attacks by a crocodile and tiger, health complication while giving birth to a baby, illness, and aging are the factors reported for multiple rhinos deaths in this period here.
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