Nepal
PROPOSED RAIL AND ROAD PROJECTS THREATEN NEPAL'S CHITWAN NATIONAL PARK
02/10/2014
Update Volume
44
Update Issue
5

Nepal’s Chitwan National Park, home to some of the world’s largest populations of rhinoceros and tigers, may be in jeopardy due to government plans for a railroad that would cut the park in half and eight new feeder roads that would run through the area. In addition to rhinos and tigers, Chitwan—a UNESCO World Heritage site—has a number of threatened species, including four-horned antelope, sloth bears, Asiatic elephants, and the critically endangered gharial.

NATIONS FACE WILDLIFE TRADE SANCTIONS
07/30/2012
Update Volume
42
Update Issue
21

United Nations conservation delegates agreed last Thursday to penalize seven nations for lax wildlife measures, suspending the nations' ability to legally trade tens of thousands of species. The sanctions, which will go into effect October 1, will take place under the 175-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species and will prevent the trade of 35,000 species.

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