Nepal is celebrating a remarkable conservation milestone.
The country has achieved its second consecutive year of zero poaching of rhinos, as of May 2016.
This brings the total to four years without poaching incidents since 2011.
The success is credited to better tracking technology, rapid ranger response, and identifying poaching hotspots in national parks.
These efforts have resulted in a record-breaking rhinoceros population.
Shubash Lohani, deputy director of WWF’s Eastern Himalaya Ecoregion program, praised the achievement.
“It takes a whole country to achieve conservation success like zero poaching, and Nepal has just done that, one more time,” he said.
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