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The Tarai’s shrinking forests
Nepal’s forest cover has doubled in 25 years, but illegal logging is thinning the southern jungles
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…
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…
The routes for the world’s most trafficked mammal
Sahana Ghosh in Kolkatahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1rSf1D72vYPangolin smugglers in India are rigging up the endangered mammals with a…
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…
Try Visiting Nepal
Photo: KUNDA DIXITCharles Shobhraj once claimed that he could pass an elephant through Nepal’s customs, and that is still true at Kathmandu…