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Conservation Solutions Where People and Wildlife Meet: Helping Communities and Saving Rhinos in Nepal
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WWF's rhino translocations help guarantee healthy populations while reducing human-rhino conflict.
photo: WWF-Canon / Michel Gunther |
Making conservation work for people is a hallmark of WWF programs around the world. With WWF's help, for instance, more than 600 families in Nepal have replaced fuelwood with bio-gas made from cow dung to meet their energy needs. As a result, deforestation has been reduced, and depleted forest wildlife has a chance to recover.
Twenty years ago, rhinos in the Himalayan foothills were so endangered that there were fewer than 100 left. WWF-aided park management and antipoaching efforts in Royal Chitwan National Park successfully safeguarded rhinos from human harm, and the park's dwindling population of greater one-horned rhinos rebounded. To avoid the human-wildlife conflicts that naturally can result when wildlife numbers recover -- and to create viable rhino populations elsewhere -- WWF now translocates some rhinos from Chitwan to other, less-populated protected areas.
Join a WWF Web expedition where we translocate ten Asian rhinos in Nepal.
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