Issued as part of Nepal's wildlife conservation series, this coin commemorates the greater one-horned rhinoceros, whose last viable Himalayan-region population survives almost entirely within Chitwan National Park. By 1997, poaching had pushed the species to critical levels across South Asia, and Nepal's anti-poaching units — backed in part by the army — were credited with near-zero poaching years in the early 2000s following renewed enforcement efforts initiated around this period.
KM#1103 was struck during the reign of King Birendra, who was killed in the royal massacre of June 2001.
Issued as part of Nepal's wildlife conservation series, this coin commemorates the greater one-horned rhinoceros, whose last viable Himalayan-region population survives almost entirely within Chitwan National Park. By 1997, poaching had pushed the species to critical levels across South Asia, and Nepal's anti-poaching units — backed in part by the army — were credited with near-zero poaching years in the early 2000s following renewed enforcement efforts initiated around this period.
KM#1103 was struck during the reign of King Birendra, who was killed in the royal massacre of June 2001.