{"id":71110,"date":"2025-04-16T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T06:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/apr\/16\/conservation-success-rhinos-nepal-human-conflict-towns-chitwan-national-park-aoe"},"modified":"2025-04-16T15:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T06:00:04","slug":"sauntering-on-streets-and-grazing-on-lawns-what-happens-when-rhinos-move-into-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71110","title":{"rendered":"Sauntering on streets and grazing on lawns: what happens when rhinos move into town?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one Nepali village, the resident rhinos are a conservation success story and attract thousands of visitors, but attacks on humans are on the rise<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t talk now, I\u2019m in hospital,\u201d Ram Kumar Aryal says when he picks up the phone. \u201cSomeone has been attacked by one of the rhinos.\u201d Every few months, Aryal \u2013 who is one of the architects of Nepal\u2019s celebrated rhino conservation programme \u2013 ends up in one of the hospitals around Chitwan national park to respond to a rhino attack. This time, three women had been injured earlier that afternoon by a female rhino outside Laukhani village in the park\u2019s buffer zone.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital had bandaged up their fractured legs and ribs and treated the bites on their hips and knees. \u201cNormally rhinos are vegetarian, but they use their incisors for attacks,\u201d says Aryal. Those incisors can grow to three inches long.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/apr\/16\/conservation-success-rhinos-nepal-human-conflict-towns-chitwan-national-park-aoe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one Nepali village, the resident rhinos are a conservation success story and attract thousands of visitors, but attacks on humans are on the rise\u201cI can\u2019t talk now, I\u2019m in hospital,\u201d Ram Kumar Aryal says when he picks up the phone. \u201cSomeone has been &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,456,65,241,61,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-conservation","category-environment","category-nepal","category-south-and-central-asia","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71113,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71110\/revisions\/71113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}