Nepal’s gharial population rises, but threats to the crocs persist

The start of 2024 has brought some good news, tempered with warnings, for Nepal’s critically endangered gharials, the fish-eating crocodiles with comically bulbous snouts.

Officials at Chitwan National Park, the country’s prime habitat for gharials, one of two crocodile species found in Nepal, say their population increased by around 11 per cent compared to the previous year.