The year 2011 was a landmark year for conservation in Nepal as not a single rhino was killed in the country across the year.
To mark this achievement the Government of Nepal, WWF and various conservation organizations celebrated Zero Poaching Year amidst a special program organized on 7 January 2012 at Chitwan National Park in Nepal’s Terai Arc Landscape. The program was organized to felicitate the key institutions whose unrelenting efforts in conservation helped bring about this success.
“This success is attributed to the coordination among the Government of Nepal, conservation partners, local communities and most importantly security forces,” said Krishna Acharya, Director General of the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC).
"To combat poaching more effectively a separate body has been formed under DNPWC to deal specifically with wildlife and security inside the parks has been stepped up with the number of range posts gone up from 7 to 51," Acharya added.