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CHITWAN, MAY 05 - Rhino population has increased by 111 and reached 645 in the country.
The Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation announced this organising a press meeting here at Sauraha, Chitwan today.
Briefing journalists at the press meeting, Coordinator of the National Technical Committee Rhinoceros Census 2015, Gopal Prasad Bhattarai, said data from the recent month-long National Rhino Census in Nepal counted 605 rhinos in Chitwan National Park and surrounding area, 29 in Bardiya National Park, eight in Shuklaphata Wildlife Reserve and three in Parsa Wildlife Reserve.
Of them, 123 are calves, 60 young-adults, 462 adults and 178 are male and 267 females. The census team failed to determine the gender of 230 rhinos during the counting, said Bhattarai.
During the census conducted in 2011, there were 534 rhinos including 503 in Chitwan National Park, 24 in Bardiya National Park, seven in Shuklaphata.
It was estimated that there were around 800 rhinos in Nepal in the 1950s which is said to have decreased to 81-100 in the 1960s, said Chief Conservation Officer of the Park Kamal Jung Kunwar. The government had formulated the National Park and Wildlife Conservation Act-2029 BS.
The country this week observed the year 2071 BS as the Zero Poaching Year for rhinos, meaning not a single endangered one-horned rhino was killed in the past 365 days in any rhino habitats in the country.
It is reported that there are around 3,000 rhinos in the world. RSS
Annual Bulletin 2067 / 68
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Nepal to conduct Rhino census in March 2020
2 September 2019
Nepal government will conduct Rhino census in March next year. The government could not conduct planned Rhino census last year as the donor agencies failed to provide the funding they pledged for the same.
Officials of the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC) said that they have already allocated budget Rs 11 million for this purpose. Officials said that they will approach the donor agencies only if they fail to have enough budgets for the census.Rhinos are found in Chitwan, Parsa, Bardiya and Shuklaphanta national parks. The census would be carried out in these national parks simultaneously. DNPWC deputy director-general Ram Chandra Kandel said they have started preparations to conduct the rhino census beginning from March 14, 2020.Officials said that separate task forces will be formed at the national parks under the coordination of the chief conservation officer of the park concerned as part of the Rhino census.According to him, a separate committee would also be formed at the Department to this effect.
Kandel said a budget of around Rs 15 million is expected to be required for conducting the census in all the four national parks.The Department had not earmarked the budget under this heading last year. He said the rhino counting will take about one month in Chitwan national park while it may take for about a week to 10 days in other national parks.The highest number of rhinos is found in Chitwan. As per the census held in 2015, there were 645 rhinos throughout the country. Of the total number, 605 rhinos were counted in Chitwan national park alone. Many rhinos were swept away by the flood in Chitwan two years back while some of these pachyderms were found dead.
March 16, 2014
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March 03, 2014
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July 29, 2013
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Aug 28, 2014
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MAY 05 2015
Rhino population has increased by 111 and reached 645 in the country.The Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation announced this organising a press meeting here at Sauraha, Chitwan today. More>>>>
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