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The rhino count, which is held every three years, has been postponed indefinitely in Bardia. Bardia National Park has informed that due to lack of funds, the rhino count which was supposed to be held in Chait this year will not take place.
Rhino counting has been stopped after the aid was stopped this year because it was being done with the help of foreign donors. Chief Conservation Officer of Bardia National Park, Ashok Ram, said that not only Bardia, but national level calculations were affected this year.
About four months ago, the park monitored the number and condition of rhinos. He said that 26 rhinos were counted during the rhino count. Last time, ten elephants including the staff of the park, the Nepali Army, and the technical team of the National Nature Conservation Fund were deployed to understand the condition of the rhinoceros.
It is estimated that more than a dozen rhinos have reached the Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary on the Indian border. In the 2022 census, 38 rhinos were counted in the park. Due to the drying up of the water in the Geruwa River flowing through Bardia Park, it is suspected that some rhinos have reached the sanctuary in India in search of water.
Karnali River Bhangalo Geruwa River in 071 and 074 floods caused by the accumulation of river materials, the water is drying up due to the change of the bank. For about 16 years, not a single rhinoceros has been killed due to poaching in Bardia National Park.
Chief conservation officer Dr. Ashok Ram said that with the help of the community, including the youth involved in conservation, there has been zero poaching in Bardia Park for a long time.
Until 16 years ago, Bardia National Park was facing national and international criticism due to rhino poaching. For the first time in 1984, 13 rhinoceros including 5 males and 8 females were transferred from Chitwan Nikunj to Geruwa and Karnali river coastal areas of Bardia.
Dr. Ashok Ram, chief conservation officer, said that there has been zero poaching of rhinoceros in Bardiya National Park for the past 16 years and that it will continue. With the help of the residents of the intermediate region, conservation workers, poaching control youth squad and the Nepalese army deployed for the protection of the park and the park, he said that poaching has become zero.
During the war, the rhinoceros in Bardiya National Park were on the verge of extinction due to poaching. Out of 83 rhinos that were transferred from Chitwan to Bardia Park, 36 were killed by poachers and 24 due to natural causes during the conflict.
