Govt revises human-wildlife conflict compensations
File: A rhino in Chitwan National Park Kathmandu, July 30 The compensation given to victims of human-wildlife conflict has gone up. The Office of the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers has created and implemented the ‘ Guidelines for the Relief and Distribution of Damages Caused by Wildlife-2023 ‘. With the implementation of the guidelines from July 17, the human-wildlife conflict relief has been extended and increased. According to the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation , the new guidelines have been implemented by revoking the previous ‘Wildlife Damage Relief Support Guidelines-2012’. The previous guidelines were revised twice until 2017. The new guideline allows people to claim compensation and relief for damages caused by 16 types of animals. It was 14 in the previous guidelines. Nilgai and monkeys have been added to the list. The other animals are elephants, rhinos, tigers, bears, leopards, snow leopards, clouded leopards, wolves, dholes, wi...