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More than 20 rhinos that fled to India from Bardia National Park three months ago have not returned yet. The number of rhinos in Bardia National Park has decreased by half due to the non-return of rhinoceros that occasionally go to the Katarniaghat Wildlife Reserve in the Indian border region.
Due to the drying up of the water in the Geruwa River that flows through the Bardia National Park, the park estimates that the rhinoceros has reached the Indian Reserve . The water has started flowing after removing the gravel, stones and sand accumulated by flood in Geruwa river. According to Ashok Ram, head of the park, even though the water level is rising, the rhinos that escaped have not returned. "Because the water level in the river has increased, we hope that the rhinoceros will return soon," he said.
As of the 2022 census, there were 38 rhinos in Bardia Park. Three of them died due to tiger attacks and natural causes. Elephants, tigers, rhinoceros and other wild animals move through Khata International Biological Route. This biological route comes under Division Forest Office . Division Forest Office Chief Vijayraj Subedi estimated that 20 to 22 rhinos have entered the Indian reserve.
"Due to the water problem, the rhinoceros here have reached the Indian border reserve," he said, "often because the wild animals live in one place, those rhinos also come back." After the water level in the park's Bhangalo Geruwa River decreased, the wild animals had a water problem. He said that now water has started flowing in Geruwa.
Wild animals that have reached Indian reserves cannot return easily. Officials of the park say that due to the lack of GPS radio collars, the condition of the rhinos that went there could not be understood. In 2010, for the first time, two rhinos reached the border Indian reserve . After that, the Indian Forest Department prepared drinking water and solution for the rhinoceros, said Ajit Tumfahamfe, head of the National Nature Conservation Fund, Bardia. "Rhinoceros are reaching Katarniaghat Reserve due to drying up of water in Geruwa," he said.
Katarniaghat reserve of India is also connected with Bardiya National Park along with international biological route . Until 14 years ago, there was not a single rhino in Katarnia Reserve. Now Bardiya National Park is becoming a habitat for rhinoceros.
For the first time in 1986, 13 rhinoceros including 5 males and 8 females were transferred from Chitwan Nikunj to the Karnali river coastal area of Bardia . Then 70 rhinos were released in Babai Valley. During the armed conflict, the rhinoceros in Bardia National Park was on the verge of extinction due to poaching.
Out of 83 rhinoceros transferred from Chitwan to Bardia, 36 were killed by poaching and 24 due to natural causes. Rhino poaching has been zero in Bardiya for 15 years. The Babai, Karnali and Babai valleys here are considered to be the proper habitat of the rhinoceros. Babai Valley is the place where the Babai river and the proper condition of water.
The rhinoceros brought here from Chitwan had GPS radio collars attached to their necks, so the park used to get information about their grazing locations. Now all GPS has become useless . Conservationist Ram Bahadur Shahi said that due to the lack of a favorable environment, wildlife escapes.
'Because there is loud noise pollution around the park, wild animals tend to flee,' he said, 'the government needs to do proper management for the wildlife.' Hemant Acharya, an activist of the anti-poaching youth mobilization campaign, said that the government urgently needs to create shelters and grasslands for rhinos in the park and in the intermediate areas.
