In this regard, the committee has directed Minister Deepak Bohara and director generals of the Department of National Park and Wildlife Conservation and Department of Forest to appear before the committee on Thursday. [break]
Poachers had shot down three one-horned rhinos in Chitwan National Park during the strike called by the UCPN (Maoists).
They were shot on May 4, 5 and 6 respectively.
A one-and-a-half-month old rhino died after its mother was killed. Another male rhino shot by the poachers during the strike is seriously injured with very less chance of survival.
Although poaching of rhinos is said to be increasing in CNP since the beginning of Nepali new year, not a single poacher has been arrested so far.
"Last Friday a 60-member team reached the spot where firing was heard in Ghadgai, but when we reached there the poachers had escaped with horns," Narendraman Babu Pradhan, Chief Conservation Officer of CNP, said.
Of the 408 rhinos counted in 2008, some 38 rhinos have been killed. “Besides the issue of rhinos, the committee would like to know what happened to the directions given by it to the ministry on many matters of national concern," said Ram Saran Ghimire, the secretary of the committee.
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