Tag: #natural resources
Articles tagged with #natural resources
Hiding their head in the sand
Illegal sand mining on Chure rivers displaces farmers, decimates a fragile landscape
Nepal struggles to balance nature and industry
Photo: SHAURYA CEMENTSNepal’s economic planners are proud of the fact that Nepal is now self-sufficient in cement. Indeed, domestic production…
The cost of peace in post-conflict countries: forest cover
REMOTE SENSING: A NASA satellite image of Nepal taken in 2002 at the height of the conflict shows extent of green cover.The advent of peace in…
Nepal’s new National Natural Resources and Fiscal Commission
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAINepal’s Constitutional Council recently recommended candidates to chair a number of constitutional bodies. This…
Who now owns Nepal's forests?
Photo: KUNDA DIXITAfter degraded forests were leased out to local communities to protect and manage 40 years ago, Nepal’s community forestry…
Nepal's silent emergency: springs going dry
DRYING UP: Toni Hagen's famous panorama of Pokhara taken in 1955, and last week from near the same spot at Pokhara airport (below). Snow cover…