Killing of a one-horned rhino after 41 months of zero poaching is worrisome for conservationists, authorities
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...
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