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FEATURE-As temperatures rise, 'aliens' threaten Nepal's oldest national park


FEATURE-As temperatures rise, aliens threaten Nepal s oldest national park
Reuters
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Rising heat linked to climate change is helping invasive plants
Grasslands now cover 6% of the park, down from 20% in the 1970s
Tackling invasive plants and digging ponds costs $400,000 a year
By Pramod Acharya
CHITWAN, Nepal, July 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When botany professor Bharat Babu Shrestha visited Nepal s Chitwan National Park in 2013, feverfew - a flowering plant in the daisy family - was rare.
Today, large areas of the park s grasslands are covered in the invasive plant, said Shrestha, who teaches at Tribhuvan University on the outskirts of Kathmandu. ....

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As temperatures rise, 'aliens' threaten Nepal's oldest national park


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Like the grasslands, the park s wetlands also are under stress.PHOTO: WWW.CHITWANNATIONALPARK.GOV.NP
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Nepal's Flagship National Park Celebrates a Conservation Victory – at What Cost?


Villagers and park staff try to scare a rhinoceros away from crops in Bachhauli village. Photo: Peter Gill
On a sunny afternoon in January 2021, a male rhinoceros lumbered through intensively farmed land in Bachhauli, a village outside Chitwan National Park in Nepal’s Terai plains. Eschewing a patch of potatoes, he turned his attention to a field of buckwheat, munching on the bright pink blossoms before plopping himself into an irrigation canal to wallow in the cool, slow-flowing water.
Worriedly watching the animal from a safe distance, Ramesh Pathak, a tall farmer with green eyes, used his mobile phone to call a game scout from the park. “He’s back again. When can you come?” Pathak asked. The rhino had grazed on Pathak’s crops several days in a row, and he was desperate for help in chasing the animal away. ....

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