DEHRADUN: The periodic forays of wild elephants from Nepal could threaten the rhinoceros reintroduction project in the Dudhwa national park, feel the scientists at the wildlife institute of India here. The WII scientists say the elephants have been seen using branches and tusks to tear down sections of an electric fence that cordons off a zone in the park where a colony of rhinos have been brought in from northeast India.
The rhino reintroduction programme, initiated in 198485 aims at resettling Indian rhinoceros in Dudhwa, a region where it was last sighted more than a century ago.
The elephant herds which have been coming into the park for short stays for several years, stayed on for an entire year this year.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 31, 1990
