The Kukrail Reserve Forest is the city’s green lung and home to the country’s most prominent gharial rehabilitation centre.
The population of critically endangered gharials in Chitwan National Park, Nepal’s stronghold for these crocodiles, increased by around 11% as of the start of 2024, totaling 265 individuals compared ...
The Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus), whose range extended through the Indian subcontinent is now extinct in Burma and Pakistan, close to extinction in Bangladesh, and is limited to few large rivers in ...