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The greater one-horned rhino nearly vanished from Nepal twice in living memory — and the same country then built one of Asia's strictest…
By Laxman Rawal · Aug 30, 2026
Chitwan National Park's tall elephant grass hides one of conservation's genuine comeback stories, and most visitors gliding past on a jeep safari never hear the numbers behind it. The greater one-horned rhinoceros — the armour-plated, single-horned animal…
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The rhino's Nepal story is not a straight line upward. Conservationists put the population at roughly 1,000 animals in the early 1950s, before land clearance for resettlement and hunting collapsed it to under 100 by the 1960s. A first national census in 1994…
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The 2021 count, run by the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation with the National Trust for Nature Conservation over three weeks from late March, broke the total down park by park. The turnaround since 2005 rests on a specific model: army…
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What this means for you Chitwan is not a zoo enclosure — it is one of the only places left on the planet where wild greater one-horned rhinos still outnumber the rangers watching over them, and the animal you see from a jeep or dugout canoe is there because…
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