Chitwan: In the last fiscal year 2024/2025, 11 people lost their lives to attacks by wild animals, including elephants, rhinos, and tigers in Chitwan National Park.
According to National News Agency Nepal, the highest number of casualties was due to rhino attacks, with eight people losing their lives to the endangered animal. Similarly, two people lost their lives in attacks by elephants and one due to a tiger attack, as reported by the park’s information officer, Abinash Thapa Magar. During the same period, 41 people were injured due to wild animal attacks. Of the injured, 32 were seriously injured, and nine suffered minor injuries.
Many of the victims were people who had entered the forest to collect green fodder, firewood, and niguro or fiddlehead fern. Over the last five years, a total of 73 people have lost their lives due to wild animal attacks in Chitwan National Park, with 169 people injured.