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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…
Nepal’s wildlife watchdogs honoured
Sudarshan Panthee and Birendra Singh Johari of the Nepal Police Central Investigation Bureau, the recipients of 2021 Asia Environmental…
Where have Bardia’s rhinos gone?
Loss of their favourite grass due to the spread of invasive vines have forced rhinos to venture outside Chitwan National Park, like this one in…
2020’s tips for 2021
Photo: BIKRAM RAIEven if we bid farewell to 2020, it is clear that we will be feeling its impact for the rest of the 2020s.There may be…
Lax laws make Nepal haven for tiger poachers
Konjuk Lama was named in numerous seizures of tiger parts in Nepal and India, and was finally caught in Kathmandu on 25 June. But like high…
6 musk deer killed by poachers during lockdown
Three of the musk deer found dead in traps laid by poachers during the COVID-19 lockdown in Sagarmatha National Park on Sunday. Photo: DAWA NURU…
The day of pangolins
Photo: TULSHI LAXMI SUWALCovid-19, the renamed Novel Coronavirus started at a wet market in Wuhan and has already taken the lives of at least…
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…
Better Nepal-China connectivity helps wildlife smugglers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1rSf1D72vY&feature=youtu.beOn 22 March, Qiu Guorong, 40, and Que Labao, 34, had just flown into Kathmandu from…
Lesser known endangered species
Saving the last of Nepal's pangolinsLaw enforcement and education, the only way to stop trafficking of endangered animalsSonia AwaleFAR FROM…
Between existence and extinction in Nepal
THE 6TH EXTINCTION: This orchid with medicinal properties, Dactylorhiza hatagirea, (Panchaule) is an endangered species.Nepal is situated at the…
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
Protecting pangolins from being eaten to extinction
Photo: TULSHI LAXMI SUWALThey may not be as cute, and do not make headlines like tigers, elephants or rhinos, but Nepal’s pangolins are…