Nepal’s One-Horned Rhino: The Most Important Conservation Story You Have Never Read
In the early 1950s, approximately a thousand greater one-horned rhinoceroses roamed the subtropical grasslands of Nepal’s Terai the narrow lowland strip that runs along the country’s southern border, bordered by India to the south and the Himalayan foothills to the north. The rhinos had lived in these grasslands for millennia, sharing the floodplains of the Rapti, Narayani, and Karnali rivers…