Nepal’s oldest national park under attack from flowering plants
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Nepal’s oldest national park under attack from flowering plants

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When botany professor Bharat Babu Shrestha visited Nepal's Chitwan National Park in 2013, it was rare to spot feverfew - a flowering plant in the daisy family. "We must dig new ponds and construct grasslands every year to keep wildlife habitat intact," said Haribhadra Acharya, a spokesperson for the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation. The maintenance efforts - which also included removing invasive weeds, uprooting trees and burning grasses - took about 50 million Nepalese rupees – 40% of the park's total development budget, the ranger said. Chitwan National Park brings in more than 295 million Nepalese rupees each year – nearly 40% of the total revenue generated by Nepal's 20 protected areas, according to a report by the DNPWC.

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