The National Park acknowledges the arrest of the most wanted wildlife criminal, Raj Kumar Praja, by an INTERPOL team in Malaysia and who later was extradited to Nepal as one of the important achievements. Praja has admitted that he was involved in the illegal trade of a total of 22 rhino horns.

Following the arrest of Praja in February last year, the Park has not recorded any incident of poaching in the last 700 days, which according to Nurendra Aryal, Information Officer of the National Park, is another achievement in wildlife conservation.

Information Officer Aryal shared that a total of 37 rhinos were recorded to have fallen prey to poachers in a single year in the past but there has been ‘zero poaching’ of rhino in the last two years. RSS