Tigers and Rhino problems in Nepal

by southasian_birdy | June 5, 2006 at 03:22 am
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Nepal, Chitwan National Park - Rhino

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National Park have revealed the tiger population to be down to just three, from thirteen in 2001, and three rhinos, despite there being more than seventy in 1986. An undisturbed rhino population of this size would have usually numbered over one hundred in the same timescale, underlining the disastrous situation present in the reserve.
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