{"id":1772,"date":"2022-06-02T16:05:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T10:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivenepali.com\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2024-01-30T17:47:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T12:02:28","slug":"a-great-success-story-the-one-horned-rhino-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivenepali.com\/?p=1772","title":{"rendered":"A Great Success Story : The One-horned Rhino Conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Biodiversity crisis has brought many disasters and extinction of different species, the one-horned rhino was also once close to extinction and by the beginning of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century, less than 200 \u00a0one-horned rhinos remained. The animals were a victim of bio-diversity and poaching as well<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>But there is some good news, the conservation effort of the greater one-horned rhino is one of the greatest conservation success stories of Asia. It is due to the strict protection and management from Nepalese &amp; the Indian wildlife authorities, these creatures have been brought back from brink.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>This week two countries of the Asian sub-continent are the news makers as the census of the one-horned rhino in India-Nepal revealed the rise of the population of these enormously beautiful animals to be 4,014.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Once the population of these animals were less than 100 and they were close to extinction. But the good news is that the one-horned population has increased by 274 since the last count,. It is also the result of the \u2018baby boom\u2019 during the pandemic when protected areas were less disturbed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>However, the one-horned rhino is still classified as vulnerable<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>However, the one-horned rhino is still classified as vulnerable and it inhabits only a fraction of its former range.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biodiversity crisis has brought many disasters and extinction of different species, the one-horned rhino was also once close to extinction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[117,119],"tags":[155,153,154,156],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivenepali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivenepali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivenepali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivenepali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivenepali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/positivenepali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2350,"href":"https:\/\/positivenepali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions\/2350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivenepali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivenepali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivenepali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivenepali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}