Salyan villagers keep watch to protect crops

Wild animals from Banke National Park enter human settlements and destroy crops, local farmers say.

Nandakali Rana, a 35-year-old woman from Kaprechaur in Kalimati Rural Municipality-7, has been spending her nights in her field for the past month. She has built herself a temporary pavilion in the middle of her field to prevent wild animals from entering her fields and destroying crops.