Kathmandu, Sept. 11 -- A one-horned rhino has been killed in Nepal after 1,249 days.

It may be a long time since the last time a rhino was killed but it has worried conservationists reminding them of a time rampant poaching of the wildlife in the country's protected areas when the country was facing another crisis in the form of an armed civilian conflict.

On Tuesday, a rhino of about 20 years of age was found dead in Laukhani post area of Nawalparasi inside Chitwan National Park.

According to Haribhadra Acharya, a spokesperson of the Department of National Park and Wildlife Conservation, the rhino succumbed to the injury caused by a gunshot on its head.

"Park officials had heard a gunshot a few days ago," Acharya, who is also an ecol...