Mission Conservation: A radar on Rhino
30-minutes, 2007
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Recently concluded Rhino Count 2005 in the Royal Chitwan National Park showed that 101 rhinos were poached between 2000 and March 5, 2005. The park has been the home of the most of the Asiatic rhinos found in Nepal and had a quarter of South Asia's entire rhino population. With the security forces busy with Maoists … poachers had a run of the sanctuary .This count has given a jolt to Nepal's success story in rhino conservation, which has been a matter of pride for Nepali conservationists for years.