CHITWAN, July 24: The Chitwan National Park (CNP) has rescued 142 wild animals in one year. According to the CNP, 142 wild animals were rescued in the fiscal year 2022/23 , including rare wild animals, tigers, pythons, and one-horned rhinoceroses.
Ganesh Prasad Tiwari, information officer of the park, said that the maximum number of 86 pythons were rescued last year. Last year, 19 snakes, 13 chitals, six panthers, six one-horned rhinoceros, and five endangered gharials were rescued, he said.
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Information Officer Tiwari said that pangolins, turtles, yellow monitors, crocodiles and deer were rescued one by one from the buffer zones, community and national forests. "Most of the wild animals that we rescued were in injured conditions," he said, "We reached the scenes of the incidents with a rescue team and rescued the wild animals after medical treatment and released them in their natural habitats." As the National Trust for Nature Conservation Biodiversity Conservation Center (NTNC) has a wildlife ambulance, it has been decided to immediately take an ambulance to rescue the wildlife.
Tigers that go to community forests and settlements and attack people are kept in cages by using darts (throwing a needle containing a drug that sticks to the gun) in the park. The park has six cages for keeping tigers and now all rescued tigers are kept in the cages.
The park spread over Nawalpur, Chitwan, Makwanpur and Parsa districts has rescued most of the wild animals from different places of Nawalpur and Chitwan.
