Land mounds offer refuge to wildlife during flooding

Chitwan’s Baghmara Buffer Zone Community Forest has constructed two land mounds, each 36 metres long, 25 metres wide, and about seven feet high.

The forest area in Baghmara, a buffer zone community forest and major tourist destination near Sauraha in Chitwan, is inundated each year during the rainy season. Floodwaters from the Budhi Rapti river enters the forest area of Baghmara, severely affecting wildlife. Many wild animals, according to conservationists, are swept away by the flooding and inundation.