Police arrest 14 rhino poachers in Nepal, smashing smuggling ring
Tikaram Paudel, an official at the Chitwan National Park, which is home to most of the country's rhinos, said police arrested Buddhi Bahadur Praja, the alleged kingpin of a network extending from Nepal to Tibet, last month.
Police in Nepal have arrested 14 rhinoceros poachers, including the alleged mastermind of a cross-border smuggling ring, it was revealed yesterday.
His arrest in the popular tourist city of Pokhara helped authorities uncover a network of poachers, said Paudel.
"He would supply the rhino horns to Kathmandu-based smugglers who would supply them to Tibetans," he said.
Police have accused the 55-year-old smuggler of killing 12 rhinos over the past six years.
Police arrested four more smugglers and eight poachers in an operation that followed Praja's capture, recovering two guns and four bullets from the poachers living in villages near the country's national parks.