Sauntering on streets and grazing on lawns: what happens when rhinos move into town?
16-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com

Sauntering on streets and grazing on lawns: what happens when rhinos move into town?

In one Nepali village, the resident rhinos are a conservation success story and attract thousands of visitors, but attacks on humans are on the rise“I can’t talk now, I’m in hospital,” Ram Kumar Aryal says when he picks up the phone. “Someone has been attacked by one of the rhinos.” Every few months, Aryal – who is one of the architects of Nepal’s celebrated rhino conservation programme – ends up in one of the hospitals around Chitwan nationa
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