Tourists Discovered By Elephants From Flooded Nepal Safari Park

Elephants were pulpy into use to rescue hundreds of unfamiliar tourists trapped in a Nepal jungle safari park, officials pronounced on Monday, as a genocide fee from peep floods and landslides after 4 days of complicated rains rose to 70.

In Sauraha, 80 km (50 miles) south of Kathmandu, a Rapti River overflowed a banks, inundating hotels and restaurants and stranding some 600 tourists.

Sauraha, on a border of Chitwan National Park, is home to 605 larger one-horned rhinoceroses, or Indian rhinoceroses, and is renouned with unfamiliar tourists, including Indian and Chinese visitors, especially for elephant float and rhino-watching.

“Some 300 guest were discovered on elephant backs and tractor trailers to (nearby) Bharatpur yesterday and a rest will be taken to safer places today,” Suman Ghimire, arch of a organisation of Sauraha hotel owners, pronounced by write on Monday.

Shiva Raj Bhatta of WWF Nepal pronounced one rhino had died in a floods.
Relief workers pronounced 26 of Nepal’s 75 districts were possibly submerged or strike by landslides after complicated rains lashed a especially alpine nation, home to Mount Everest and a hearth of Lord Buddha.

The genocide toll, that had stood during 49 on Sunday, was approaching to arise with another 50 people reported blank in a floods and landslides, Information and Communications Minister Mohan Bahadur Basnet said.

Basnet pronounced some-more than 60,000 homes were underneath water, especially in a southern plains adjacent India. Estimates of waste were not available, with rescuers nonetheless to strech villages marooned by a misfortune floods in new years.

“The conditions is worrying as tens of thousands of people have been hit,” Basnet told Reuters.
Large swaths of farmland in a southern plains, Nepal’s breadbasket, are underneath H2O and a Himalayan nation could face food shortages due to stand losses, assist workers said.

“The complicated rains strike during one of a misfortune times, shortly after farmers planted their rice stand in a country’s many critical rural region,” pronounced Sumnima Shrestha, a mouthpiece for U.S.-based non-profit organisation Heifer International.

Monsoon rains, that start in Jun and continue by September, are critical for farm-dependent Nepal, though they also means complicated detriment of life and skill repairs any year.

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Nepal fence to keep elephants away may escalate into political row

Nepal has erected the 18-km-long energised fence near the bank of Mechi river that divides the two countries.

A battery-operated fence erected by Nepal along the border to keep elephants from India away is set to snowball into a controversy with the West Bengal government writing to the Centre to raise the issue with the neighbouring country.

Nepal erected the 18-km-long energised fence near the bank of Mechi river that divides the two countries with aid from international funding agencies six months ago.

West Bengal forest minister Binay Krishna Barman, who held a high-level meeting with state forest officials in Sukna in Darjeeling on Saturday, raised objection over the fence along the international border by Nepal.

Barman said the fencing blocks the natural movement of the elephants.

“The state government has already written a letter to the Centre to take up the matter with the Nepal government,” Barman said.

Every year hundreds of elephants migrate from the forests of Assam and West Bengal into Nepal through the Indo-Nepal border and destroy crops in the villages on both sides.

The animals follow a traditional corridor to reach places like Bahundangi in eastern Nepal under Jhapa district after crossing forests of Sukna and Panighata in Darjeeling district of West Bengal.

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Nepal develops new fencing to protect farms and elephants

An electric fence has been developed in Napal to stop elephants from raiding people’s crops and houses.

 However, it will allow other wildlife, people and cattle to pass through unhindered.

The Himalayan Tiger Foundation is working with the National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC), WWF-Nepal and the authorities of Bardiya National Park will test a new approach for keeping elephants and people separated.

Together with scientists from the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands they have developed an experimental electric fence.

It uses a single live wire, instead of multiple wires, at a height of 180 cm that allows people and cattle, but also deer, tigers, and rhinos to walk underneath it.

The idea is to stop the much taller elephants from going through but not other wildlife.

Hopefully it also prevents people from cutting fences because they can pass through unhindered.

It’s an excellent idea.

Whether it will work will largely depend on how well the scientists understand elephants and even more importantly how well they understand communities.

Fences only work where communities support and maintain them.

Getting this support is not easy.

Co-financing schemes appear necessary to create the required sense of ownership from communities.

Human-elephant encounters are costly to the community. A recent study showed that the total yearly elephant damage in the 5,000 ha project area is about US$ 35,000 – 50,000 in crop losses and damage to houses.

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Nepal tests fencing approach to protect farms and elephants

“We are not angry with the elephant and know that we need to protect it, but we also need to protect ourselves”.

This is a brave statement by Kaushala Budha, a Nepali farmer in the Patabhar hamlet, whose house had been nearly destroyed by a raiding elephant the previous night. I had expected more anger and a call for revenge, but no such thing. “If the government would help us, we would pack our bags and leave”, she says. Not too surprising because last night’s raid on her house was the 6th time in a year.


For the past week I have been working in the Bardiya National Park in western Nepal. The Himalayan Tiger Foundation (NTF) invited me to come and help them think through their program on human-elephant encounters. NTF works here with National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC) and WWF-Nepal, advising them on improving park management and ultimately increasing the abundance of key species that occur, like tiger, rhinos, elephants, swamp deer, and a range of other exciting species.

This time, we are here to address two issues: Testing a new system of electric fencing, and starting a grassland improvement program to increase palatable grasses to get more deer and antelopes and ultimately more tigers.

Human-elephant encounters are costly to the community. A recent study showed that the total yearly elephant damage in the 5,000 ha project area is about US$ 35,000 – 50,000 in crop losses and damage to houses.

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