Electric traps emerge as growing threat to rhino conservation in Nepal

Chitwan National Park records show seven of the 204 rhinos that died between the fiscal years 2015-16 and 2022-23 were killed by electric current.

A one-horned rhinoceros found dead in a cornfield in Kawasoti Municipality of Nawalparasi East on Friday has once again drawn attention to a growing threat facing the country’s endangered wildlife—illegal electric traps set either by poachers or farmers trying to protect crops from wild animals.