Tag: #elephants
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Making festivals elephant-friendly in Nepal
Reinventing Chitwan's Elephant Festival to be enjoyed by both humans and pachyderms
The elephant whisperer of Nepal
Photos: ICIMODWhen I arrived in February, Bahundangi in Jhapa seemed like a sleepy little town, but the quiet was often interrupted, not by…
Centennial of hunting diplomacy in Nepal
Prime Minister Chandra Shamsher Rana (left) with King George V (right) during a 1911 hunting expedition in the Tarai. Ten years later, he hosted…
Nepal’s illegal elephant export
The illegal export of domesticated elephants from Nepal to India Chitwan due to the collapse of wildlife tourism that began during last year’s…
Human-animal interface in Nepal wildlife corridor
Renuka Sunar was killed in a tiger attack on 10 March earlier this year. All photos: AMIT MACHAMASI1 0 March 2020. It was an ordinary day for…
Nepal’s wild elephants are also on the move
Photos: SALIK RAM CHAUDHARYBefore Covid-19 and lockdowns I would be guiding tourists around Bardia National Park this time of year. But the…
Police track India-Nepal elephant trafficking
https://www.youtube.com/embed/SCmfLUwnPKM?fbclid=IwAR3h1keTwFhVoE8SrMAO8kKO15azOH-Kmr4uQSrfQ0WUpu3iDAPPajf0IA domesticated elephant used for…
Nepal’s wildlife watchdogs honoured
Sudarshan Panthee and Birendra Singh Johari of the Nepal Police Central Investigation Bureau, the recipients of 2021 Asia Environmental…
Set the elephants free
Safari elephants on the streets of Sauraha. Photo: ISAZHumans and elephants have shared environments for thousands of years, but what might…
Speaking for elephants
Photo: BIKRAM RAILisa Choegyal’s column ‘The Elephant Dilemma’, 4 October 2020 elicited many comments from readers, some of which are excerpted…
Chitwan’s Bote people in a changing world
Little known fishing community clings to life at the edge of the jungle
The elephant dilemma
By following the sound science, Nepal could lead Asia in tourism best practice
What drives wildlife poaching?
Photo : ALEX DUDLEYNepal is the first tiger-range country to double the number of the endangered big cats in its reserves, and has marked five…
For and against Nijgad airport
Nepali Times #990How ironic, when we destroy something created by man we term it as ‘vandalism’ but when we destroy something created by nature…
Waiting till the cows come home
Photo: KUNDA DIXITThe first thing one notices these days while travelling by road in the Tarai are hundreds of cattle blocking the East-West…
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
Project Dragonfly
GOING GOING GONE: A female of the new dragonfly species Microgomphus phewataali discovered last year in Pokhara by naturalists Karen Conniff and…
Gap yah gals in the jungle
Such was the allure of adventure in Chitwan, parents actually paid for their offspring to work at Tiger Tops
The Eyes of Truth
The blue sky was clear and early afternoon sunlight bounced off the glaciers, gullies and rock walls of the Langtang peaks, but the helicopter…
Jaunts with JBS
Catching up with Col John Blashford-Snell, the army explorer and Nepal aficionado