Construction of 30 artificial ponds in five years for wildlife to drink water.
The Kali Daha Dam located in the core area of Parsa National Park, which was damaged during the last rainy season, has been repaired by the park administration.
The park administration has been prioritizing the conservation of natural reservoirs available in this park, which has fewer natural sources of drinking water for wild animals compared to other parks.
Santosh Kumar Bhagat, the park's conservation officer, said that after the dam at Kali Daha was damaged and the water that naturally rises in the dam could not be stored, the dam was repaired and water was conserved in the dam. 'Kali Daha falls in the core area of the park, a large number of wild animals come there to drink water,' he said, 'When there is no water in the dam, the wild animals become thirsty due to lack of water.'
Apart from this, there are other dams in the park, including Kamini, Halkhoriya, Halkhoriya Mini, and Lauki. Most of the rivers in the park are rivulets. They have water only during the rainy season. For about 9 months of the year, these rivers are waterless.
In such a situation, the wildlife of the park has even more difficulty drinking water during the dry season, so the park administration has also intensified the work of constructing artificial ponds targeting areas where there is no water availability in the park for the past five years. ‘In the past five years, we have constructed two and a half dozen artificial ponds in various areas of the park,’ he said. ‘When the water level decreases in winter, we try to quench the thirst of wildlife by pouring water from tankers into such ponds every day.’
