WWF says in a press release that zero rhinos were poached during 2011 in Nepal. Conservation organizations working with the Nepalese government recognized the achievement of six different enforcement agencies with awards on January 7th. One female rhino was presumed poached from Manas National Park, but park staff and enforcement officials searched on foot for two weeks for the rhino whose radio collar ceased to give off a signal. She was eventually found wallowing in a pond inside the park boundaries. Two other one-horned Asia rhinos were translocated to Manas in January to join the eight living there since 2008, part of the Indian Rhino Vision 2020 joint project of the government of Assam, WWF, US Fish & Wildlife Services and the International Rhino Foundation
[photo]. The rhinos are considered vulnerable by the IUCN because of habitat loss and ivory poaching. About 2900 are believed to still exist in India and Nepal.
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