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Dang, Udaypur: Wild elephants create chaos September 2004
Kanchanpur: Poachers killed Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve September 2004
Saptari, Sunsari and Udayapur: Koshi Tappu declared buffer zone August 2004
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September 2004: Dang and Udaypur: Wild elephants create chaos

A herd of wild elephants killed a father and severely injured his son in Govervitta VDC, Chisapani of Dang district. According to reports, the herd of elephants, which entered the village from the local forest, crushed the father in front of his house. His son has been taken to Butwal hospital for treatment. The elephants, also destroyed five houses, paddy and bananas worth thousands of rupees.

Wild elephants have been creating chaos at Khaiganpur of Triyuga Municipality in Udaypur district. According to reports, a herd of elephants destroyed seven houses and damaged paddy worth hundreds of thousands of rupees. The elephants which keep on entering the villages from the local forest have destroyed over 3 dozen houses and damaged food grains worth about Rs 2 million in Udaypur within a period of a year.

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September 2004 Kanchanpur: Poachers killed in Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve

Two unidentified poachers fell prey to the firing from an army at the south-eastern part of the protected forest region of the Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve yesterday evening. According to sources from the Chandidal army battalion, the army started firing when a group of illegal hunters numbering six to seven, within the forest area near Baibaha, tried to flee upon seeing the patrol team heading towards them. Two Poachers died in the shooting. A gun was recovered from a dead hunter. The two dead have not yet been identified, but are suspected to be Indian nationals.

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August 2004 Saptari, Sunsari and Udayapur: Koshi Tappu declared buffer zone

The government has declared an area around Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, as buffer zone, giving fresh impetus to the nearly three-decade-old conservation efforts. The new decision will entitle around 78,000 residents of a 173 sq. km. area to use between 30 to 50 per cent of the reserve's income for community development activities. Earlier, the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC) had sent a proposal for creation of the buffer zone to the Ministry of Forests last Friday, which was approved by a ministerial level decision yesterday.

A senior officer at the DNPWC said an action plan for the development of the zone has also been prepared, which encoMapsses areas around Saptari, Sunsari and Udayapur districts. The Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve sprawls over an area of 175 sq km. The latest decision takes the total number of buffer zones around protected areas to eight. Apart from Koshi Tappu, other buffer zones in the Terai are around Chitwan and Bardiya national parks, and the Shukla Phanta wildlife reserve.

In the mountains, buffer zones have been declared in Makalu Barun, Sagarmatha, Langtang and Shey Phoksundo national parks.

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