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Nepal is no longer the land of rhinos. In fact, Poaching Rhinos is a lucrative business in Nepal. The reality is that hardly anyone cares for the rhinos in Nepal. It is a poor country and the government cannot allocate enough funds for protecting these animals. So, they face the risk of extinction. Well, it is nice to see that some people are at leasing counting the number of rhinos.

Reuters reported:

Nepal has begun a census of the endangered Great One-horned Rhinoceros population in a wildlife reserve where sightings of the majestic animal have become rarer, a national parks official said on Sunday.

Rhino experts riding elephants will be combing the Bardiya National Park and Wildlife Reserve, 320 km (200 miles) southwest of Kathmandu, where 83 rhinos from another reserve have been released since 1984.

A very good initiative- no doubt about it but I want to see more than that. We want to see some concrete action to save the rhinos in Nepal. It will be a terrible shame if rhinos get extinct from Nepal.