Browsing the archives for the Chitwan National Park tag
Increased rhino poaching in Chitwan National Park has prompted the Nepali government to get tough with the killers.
Now that a series of high level meetings called by Nepal’s Prime Minister have revealed that international crime syndicates are targeting Chitwan National Park’s rhinos, the government is taking a hard-line stance against rhino poaching.
A parliamentary probe into Nepal’s rise in rhino poaching reveals involvement of an international smuggling syndicate.
A recent investigation – ordered by Nepal’s Prime Minister – into increased rhino poaching in Chitwan National Park has led to an unsurprising conclusion: An international smuggling syndicate is behind the killings.
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has assembled the country’s high level security personnel, seeking action to stop the rise in rhino poaching.
The alarming increase in rhino poaching inside Chitwan National Park has prompted Nepal’s Prime Minister to call a meeting of high level security officials from the ministries of forest, home and defense.
In recognition of World Environment Day, six Chitwan schools participated in a grassroots rhino conservation awareness event.
Teachers and students in Nepal sent a strong message to would-be rhino poachers on World Environment Day by holding a rhino conservation awareness event in the heart of where four rhinos had been shot dead by poachers just one [...]
Saving Rhinos has created a new public awareness video with a nod to positive conservation efforts in Nepal and India.
This is the companion video to the Saving Rhinos “This, Not This” poster, which features the greater one-horned rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis).
Check out “This, Not This” rhino poaching awareness poster.
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Local groups – Partnership for Rhino Conservation and Hands for Conservation – recently held a successful public awareness event in Chitwan, Nepal.
March 27, 2010 was an exciting day for Chitwan’s local conservationists and communities, as multiple conservation groups joined forces in an awareness-raising event that took off with a cycle rally and featured a number [...]
Thanks to a new generation of conservationists, grassroots programs are having a positive effect on rhino conservation in Nepal.
Partnership for Rhino Conservation (PARC), led by one of Nepal’s hardworking young conservationists, Suman Bhattarai, is an innovative program that shows promise. Under his guidance, PARC focuses on helping the residents of Chitwan National Park’s buffer zone [...]
This week’s book is The Return of the Unicorns: The Natural History and Conservation of the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros by Eric Dinerstein.
Book Summary: The Return of the Unicorns chronicles the recovery of the greater one-horned rhino population in Nepal during the mid-1990’s through early 2000’s, and proposes a blueprint for large mammal conservation in Asia, [...]
