Nepal needs wildlife friendly highways
Kathmandu, May 22 -- On 2 January, the news of an adult tigress struck by a vehicle in Mahendra Highway made the rounds on social media. The photo of the striped big cat sprawled on the asphalt in a pool of blood touched many.
But there was also anger. The roadkill followed the killing by another tiger of a middle-aged woman on a motorcycle with her son in the same stretch of highway.
In December 2016, a speeding bus killed another tiger, and another in January 2019 left a tiger severely injured, the animal's condition did not improve despite treatment and it died 13 months later.
These examples of harrowing road kill and human-animal conflict are on the rise in Nepal, thanks to new infrastructure including roads, irrigation canals, tr...
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