Tag: #conservation
Articles tagged with #conservation
Chandra’s Annapurna
In a posthumously published book, Chandra Gurung documents the conservation-with- development model he pioneered
The musical bridge between past and present
The sarangi is suddenly ‘cool’ again, the music spreading awareness about conservation and discrimination
State vs Nature
Nepal’s Supreme Court has summoned the President Chure Terai Madhesh Conservation Development Board and the National Trust for Nature…
Conversation with Mr Conservation
Nepal’s self-made champion for protection of nature now says protect people first
Nepal's 'Owl Sir' awarded
Raju Acharya wins the 2024 Whitley Award to protect the endangered nocturnal birds in central Nepal
Don’t fix what ain’t broke
The government’s proposal to auction tigers for hunting is another gross illustration of greed, incompetence and malgovernance
Conservation vs Conservatives
Nepal’s minister sees national parks as a gold mine, not as an ecosystem to be protected
Snakes on plains
On the Day of Serpents, profile of a young Nepali couple volunteering to rewild rescued snakes
The Malayan rainforest and its rare flower
The Rafflesia is the largest flower in the world, growing in the jungles where Gurkhas fought a guerrilla war
Remembering Pat Guru
New Zealand professor Patrick Devlin taught a whole generation of Nepali conservationists
The Red Panda House
New building in Taplejung is not just a training centre, but a base camp for Kanchenjunga trekkers
Save Nepal’s orchids
Himalayan orchids need urgent protection before they are smuggled to extinction
A life dedicated to Nepal’s butterflies
All photos: Anil RaiColin Smith lies in his hospital bed dressed in a blue button-up, and the trademark Dhaka topi perched on his head. The…
Close encounter of the wild kind in Nepal
On World Rhino Day, a Nepali conservationist recounts being nearly gored to death, and a lesson in conservation
Protecting Nepal’s endangered wild cattle
A wild ox Gaur spotted in Chitwan. Photo: BABU RAM LAMICHHANEOn the morning of 4 May, I got a call from the chief warden of Kosi Tappu Wildlife…
The history of heritage
The Taleju Temple of Patan with the Mulchok courtyard in 2019. Photo: NHDP.Seven years ago, on a particularly gloomy Saturday, the ground…
Protecting Nepal’s parks by saving buffer zones
Next generation buffer zone policies will help conserve the country’s natural diversity for the future
Saving Nepal’s archives from oblivion
In June 2019, a team from the National Archives reached Taplejung in eastern Nepal to find decaying handwritten parchments, centuries-old…
Kathmandu’s ancient water spouts still functioning
Photo: LIEW YU WEI/NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVEMany great cities and civilisations in world history have collapsed, their populations forced to…
Planet of the pangolins
3 May 2009 has a special significance for Tulsi Laxmi Suwal, as it was the day she found a mother pangolin with her new-born pup inside the…
Nepali activist shortlisted for nature award
Sonam Tashi Lama, a Nepali grassroots conservationist working to protect the country’s endangered red panda is among 15 activists shortlisted…
Nepal's unequal wildlife laws
Former Prime Minister Kirti Nidhi Bista in a program with host Suman Kharel. Photo: SUMAN SANGAI was watching a talk show. The host was grilling…
Infrastructure for wildlife in Nepal
Vehicular and wildlife crossings ongoing construction at East-West electrified railway lines near Bardibas, Nepal. Photos: PRAMOD NEUPANENepal’s…
Cycle to fight climate change
It must be a cosmic confluence that just as the world leaders gather in Glasgow next week to try to save the planet, we in Nepal mark the tragic…