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Conversation with Mr Conservation
Nepal’s self-made champion for protection of nature now says protect people first
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
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…
The unsung heroes of conservation
Piprahar in Chitwan. Photo: MUNA THAPA/WWF NEPALIndigenous people and local communities provide the best long-term outcomes for conservation at…
Tigers move up the Himalaya
Tigers (left-female/right-male) photographed during the Chure study in the forests of Kapilvastu, Rupandehi, and PalpaA new paper has reported…
Nepal’s tiger conservation ‘too successful’?
Photo: WWFThe decomposed body of an adult tiger was found in Banke’s Gokul Community Forest in May. It was difficult to say how it died, but…
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…
Tiger poacher gets 7 years jail
Nearly a year after he was arrested, the ringleader of a notorious wildlife smuggling network, Kunjok Lama, has been served seven years in jail…
Tiger poacher gets 7 years jail
Nearly a year after he was arrested, the ringleader of a notorious wildlife smuggling network, Kunjok Lama, has been served seven years in jail…
On the road in West Nepal
The past year will go down in history as one great global disaster with the coronavirus pandemic leading the pack of calamities from fires to…
Nepal’s wildlife watchdogs honoured
Sudarshan Panthee and Birendra Singh Johari of the Nepal Police Central Investigation Bureau, the recipients of 2021 Asia Environmental…
Nepal’s highest-ever tiger sighting
The same tiger captured in the camera trap in Ilam on 13 and 21 November 2020 in the mountains of Ilam at an altitude of 3,165m. Photos: Red…
Nepal’s highest-ever tiger sighting
The same tiger captured in the camera trap in Ilam on 13 and 21 November 2020 in the mountains of Ilam at an altitude of 3,165m. Photos: Red…
Kali-Karnali jungle corridor proposed
When researchers installed camera traps deep in the forested mountains of western Nepal last year, they expected to capture lots of shots of…
Chitwan can accommodate more tigers
Photo: WWFWhen a wildlife census in Chitwan National Park in 2013 counted 120 tigers, conservationists were elated. It meant Nepal was well on…
Unsung heroes of Nepal’s tiger recovery
Piprahar in Chitwan. Photos: MUNA THAPA/WWF NEPALNepal serves as a global tiger conservation success story. Despite a decade-long civil war,…
Rise in tiger numbers make leopards raid livestock
A leopard inside Chitwan National Park. All photos: SAGAR GIRIAs Nepal’s tiger population doubles in ten years, leopards are coming out of the…
Close encounters with tigers in Nepal
6 January, 2004. It was a foggy and cold winter morning in the western Tarai. As secretary of the Gauri Community Forest User Group, Bhadai…
It’s a zoo out there
Fast running out of space for rescued wildlife, the Central Zoo wants to expand to Bhaktapur
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
Project Dragonfly
GOING GOING GONE: A female of the new dragonfly species Microgomphus phewataali discovered last year in Pokhara by naturalists Karen Conniff and…
Nepal tigers now number 235
The Nepal government announced the total number of wild tigers in the country had reached 235, nearly double of what it was in 2009. This means…
How many tigers in Nepal?
After being hunted nearly to extinction, Nepal’s tiger numbers surged in recent decades thanks to a successful conservation program. But with…