Tag: #biodiversity
Articles tagged with #biodiversity
Nepali wins Whitley Award 2025
Another grassroots conservationist from Nepal is among the winners of this year’s environmental award
The Tarai’s shrinking forests
Nepal’s forest cover has doubled in 25 years, but illegal logging is thinning the southern jungles
State vs Nature
Nepal’s Supreme Court has summoned the President Chure Terai Madhesh Conservation Development Board and the National Trust for Nature…
Not out of the woods yet in Nepal
The draft of a new national park and wildlife conservation bill threatens to undo Nepal’s decades-long success in nature protection
People, tigers, trees and rivers
On World Tiger Day, a look at Nepal's intricate web of biodiversity and conservation
Biosphere on the brink
Despite our best efforts, it is almost too late for nature in the Hindu Kush Himalaya
Saving Kangchenjunga
The biodiversity treasures of eastern Nepal are at risk from new roads, outmigration and climate change
Where wild things are
Just a short drive from the Ring Road is Pulchoki, Kathmandu Valley’s biodiversity treasure trove
Save Nepal’s orchids
Himalayan orchids need urgent protection before they are smuggled to extinction
Including local knowledge to study climate change
Scientist couple spend six months researching climate impact on glaciers and biodiversity below Kangchenjunga
Nijgad’s green runway
The path is open to declare a national park in the native forest where the airport would have been
Protecting Nepal’s parks by saving buffer zones
Next generation buffer zone policies will help conserve the country’s natural diversity for the future
Freshwater dolphin comeback in Nepal
Ganges river dolphin back in Nepal’s Narayani River. Photos: TEK MAHATO.It is the best possible New Year 2022 present. A local nature guide in…
Nepal can up forest cover to 45% by 2030
Chitlang, Makwanpur. Photo: KUNDA DIXITPrime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba announced at COP26 last week that Nepal would increase forest cover to…
Right trees for right seasons in Kathmandu
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIEvery spring Kathmandu turns into a city of flowers blooming with jacaranda and bougainvillea. People wait year-round to…
UN climate report declares planetary emergency
Paddy and maize fields in Kavre. A heavier than usual monsoon this year brought destructive floods, but was a boon to farmers. Photo: AMIT…
Grow back greener
The pandemic offers us the chance to tread lighter on the land allow nature to restore itself
Night of the firefly
Many of us have fond childhood memories of the जुनकिरी (firefly), chasing the fascinating lightning bugs through fields and forests. Across the…
Too little, too much, or too polluted
All photos: KARUN DEWANWhen NASA explores other planets, the test of whether there is life, is to detect the presence of water. Here on Earth,…
The fading light of Nepal’s fireflies
Many of us have fond childhood memories of the जुनकिरी firefly, chasing these fascinating flashing bugs through fields and forests. Across the…
Protecting pangolins in the pandemic
Newly born pangolin baby at police custody in Bhaktapur, Nepal. The mother pangolin was seized while being illegally transported from Dhading…
Model for post-Covid ecotourism
Ornithologists Carol Inskipp, Rupendra Karmacharya and Prem Thapa with a follow-up about how their lobbying has halted a controversial road…
Conserving mountains for people and nature
Half the world’s biodiversity and half the quarter of world’s population reside along the mountains. And a half of the world’s population…
Conserving mountains for people and nature
Half the world’s biodiversity and half the quarter of world’s population reside along the mountains. And a half of the world’s population…