{"id":432675,"date":"2026-07-16T11:29:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=432675"},"modified":"2026-07-16T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:45:00","slug":"notorious-dhrube-elephant-fitted-with-radio-collar-released-in-chitwan-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/07\/16\/432675.html","title":{"rendered":"Notorious Dhrube elephant fitted with radio collar, released in Chitwan National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Chitwan:<\/strong> Chitwan National Park has fitted a GPS-enabled radio collar on the notorious wild elephant Dhrube and released it back into the park to closely monitor its movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the park&#8217;s Information Officer, Abinash Thapa Magar, the elephant was tranquilized using a dart gun on Wednesday night before the radio collar was installed. Its tusks were also trimmed before it was released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GPS-enabled collar will allow park authorities to track Dhrube&#8217;s location and monitor its activities in real time, helping reduce the risk of human-elephant conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The operation was carried out jointly by a team from the Nepali Army, Chitwan National Park, and the National Trust for Nature Conservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Park authorities had been searching for Dhrube for the past 10 days after the elephant reportedly killed 25-year-old Ashika Bote and her four-year-old son, Bharat Bote, in Bharatpur Metropolitan City-23. The search was delayed due to dense vegetation and unfavorable weather conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dhrube is believed to have killed around 25 people in and around Chitwan National Park over the years, making it one of Nepal&#8217;s most notorious wild elephants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GPS-enabled collar will allow park authorities to track Dhrube&#8217;s location and monitor its activities in real time, helping reduce the risk of human-elephant conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":432676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,76,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-432675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-society","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432677,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432675\/revisions\/432677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432675"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=432675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}