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Chitwan. The rhino census, which is held every five years, will not be held this year due to financial constraints. The census was conducted with the help of donors, but this year it has been stopped due to lack of assistance, said Ram Chandra Kandel, Director General of the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation.
The government has not made any budget arrangements to keep regular records of rhinos. Even if the census cannot be conducted this year, the status of each rhino will be identified through the park’s post based on the signs.
He said that the census will be conducted as much as possible by mobilizing the entire manpower of the park. Director General Kandel said, ‘Although the exact number is not made public like the census, the situation can be understood in detail based on the marks of each rhino.’
The department had been counting rhinos in collaboration with various donor agencies collaborating with the park. One-horned rhinos are found in the national parks of Chitwan, Parsa, Bardiya and Shuklaphanta. The census showed that the highest number was in Chitwan. According to the census, there were 752 rhinos at that time.
There were 694 one-horned rhinos in Chitwan National Park. There are 38 such rhinos in Bardiya, 18 in Shuklaphanta and three in Parsa. The department has stated that there were 800 rhinos in Nepal in 1950, 400 in 1955, 300 in 1960, 100 in 1965, 108 in 1970, 147 in 1975, 310 in 1980, 310 in 1985, 358 in 1990, and 466 in 1995.
Similarly, there were 612 rhinos in 2000, 409 in 2005, 435 in 2010, and 645 in 2015. Previously, the rhino census was conducted in 2021.
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