February 2014: A plan to bisect one of Nepal’s most spectacular national parks Chitwan, which houses globally important populations of one-horned rhinoceros and the Bengal tiger, with railways and roads has caused alarm among conservationists.
Scientists from ALERT, the Alliance of Leading Environmental Researchers and Thinkers, have expressed great alarm about Nepalese and Indian government plans to bisect the park with a major leg of the East-West Railway.
They have said that plans to push a major railroad and eight feeder roads into the park could be environmentally devastating, given the potential for increased fragmentation, disturbance and poaching of the park’s wildlife.
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