Tag: #community forests
Articles tagged with #community forests
Community reduces wildfire risk, increases wellbeing
Tarai women protect their forest from fires by turning dry litter into fertiliser to improve harvests
Women conserve, men still conservative
Nepal’s rural women protect community forests, but men still make decisions
Protecting Nepal's forests from fires
A fire engulfed major parts of Nagarkot's Datadol forest in April 2021. Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIMarch 2022 was one of the hottest recorded in the…
Nepal’s greenwashing in Glasgow
Youth climate activist Greta Thunberg calls COP26 in Glasgow the ‘Global North Greenwashing Festival.’ But it is also developing countries like…
Will Nepal ever be paid for saving trees?
Photo: KUNDA DIXITLast week, the Nepal government signed a carbon trading agreement with the Lowering Emissions by Accelerating Forest Finance…
Is wildlife conservation a victim of its own success in Nepal?
Photo: DIVISION FOREST OFFICE TANAHUWildlife-human conflict is intensifying in Nepal, but while in the mountains, it is due to increased forest…
In conservation, Nepal is not out of the woods yet
With poaching under control, the big new threat to Nepal’s nature is from infrastructure
Two new books on conflict and conservation
Photo: AKASH CHETTRISam Cowan’s Essays on Nepal: Past and Present deserves a more creative title. But being a retired Colonel Commandant of the…