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Pushpa and Anjali at Chitwan National Park’s Biodiversity Conservation Centre. Chitwan, November 26 Two rhinos from Chitwan National Park are being relocated to Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve on Tuesday. The two female rhinos, Puspa and Anjali, have been put in separate cages and are being relocated to Koshi Tapu. Ramesh Yadav, head of Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, claims that wetlands and grasslands are good for rhinos in Koshi Tappu. A 16-foot-high, 85-foot-long enclosure has been built to keep Pushpa and Anjali. “We have water and a grass field in the enclosure,” says Yadav. Conservationists, however, feel there has not been enough homework to be sending these rhinos to Koshi. They say that sending rhinos without conducting thorough studies and ensuring proper management would be wrong. “Two rhinos were given as a gift in China, but both of them died, we could not save them,” said a former conservation officer of the park. “These rhinos who were moving freely around the buf...