Anti-poaching

Mrigakunja User Committee and its sub-committee of Youth Awareness Initiatives of Anti-poaching have fulfilled their jobs as follows:

  1. Two days interaction programme to the employees of forest attendants about Rhino conservation.
  2. Regular meetings, discussions and interaction on Rhino conservation and other miscellaneous subjects with community forest user groups and other organizations.
  3. Folk song programs for public awareness of conservation on 9th and 10th wildlife week.
  4. School teaching programmes on conservation by Youth Awareness Initiative in 8 schools.
  5. Training and interaction on conservation and Anti-poaching to the younger members of society.
  6. Door-to-door programmes to spread public awareness on the conservation of the one-horned rhino in the surrounding areas of the community forests.
  7. Giving information about forests, wildlife and environment to the consumers through street-dramas stage dramas through youth initiatives.
  8. Launched the anti-poaching Eastern Regional Committee in participation with the Youth Initiative.
  9. Group teaching programmes.
  10. Pamphlets and audio-visual programs distributed at various locations in and around the area of Mrigakunja Bufferzone.
  11. Helpless wild animals are handed over to the eastern sector office of Chitwan National Park.
  12. The Youth Awareness Initiative has captured and handed over a variety of equipment to Chitwan National Park, including fishing nets, Ambush ropes, and swords which are used illegally for fishing.

These types of programs have enabled people to move ahead with mutual co-ordination for conservation work by changing their negative attitudes towards the national park. Their positive attitude has also decreased hunting and poaching.