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Update from Nepal: A Successful Year of Raising Public Awareness About Rhino Conservation

Tweet We are pleased to share with you the public awareness activities we have helped support in Nepal. The past year has been a successful one for public awareness efforts in Nepal, thanks to the grassroots organization Partnership for Rhino Conservation. PARC’s education-based program focuses on helping the residents of Chitwan National Park’s buffer zone [...]

Teachers and Students in Nepal Celebrate World Environment Day with Rhino Conservation Event

Tweet 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 [...]

‘This, Not This’ Rhino Conservation Awareness Video [Warning: Graphic Image]

Tweet 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. Thank you for sharing [...]

Grassroots Rhino Conservation: Nepal’s New Generation is Leading the Way

Tweet 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 [...]

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