DHARAN: The Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve has welcomed a total of 11,603 visitors so far in the current fiscal year 2081/82 BS (2026/27 AD).
Of them, 11,214 were domestic visitors. A total of 87 visitors were from SAARC countries, including 42 women and 45 men, while 302 tourists from other countries visited the reserve, comprising 151 women and 151 men, according to Reserve Chief and Senior Conservation Officer Bhupendra Prasad Yadav.
Spread across an island formed by the Saptakoshi River in Sunsari and Saptari, the reserve is especially famous for its population of wild water buffaloes. It covers an area of 348 sq km, including a buffer zone of 173 sq km.
Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal’s only Ramsar-listed wildlife reserve since 1987, serves as a habitat for the endangered wild water buffalo, crocodiles (gharial and mugger), dolphins, and various fish species.
The reserve is also considered an important biological corridor connected to eastern India. While it has relatively fewer large carnivores—except for leopards—it represents the unique biodiversity and ecological characteristics of Nepal’s eastern Tarai region.
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