Status and Distribution.

It is difficult to obtain accurate information about the former range and distribution of rhinoceros in Nepal. W. T. Blanford, in The Fauna of British India, Mammalia, Part II (1891), wrote of it as being found in 1850 “… along the base of the Himalayas in Nepal and as far west as Rohilcund” (a district of India near the border of West Nepal). From information obtained in Katmandu it appears that the last rhinoceros in the Morang District of south-eastern Nepal was shot at the turn of the present century, and that the last rhinoceros in the area immediately east of Chitawan was killed in 1927. It would be safe to say that about 100 years ago rhinoceros were found all along the southern border of Nepal. Since 1930 they have been confined to the area covered by this Report.