Tag: #wetlands
Articles tagged with #wetlands
Where culture meets ecology
Reverence and traditional practices have helped preserve valuable wetland ecosystems in the Himalaya
Begnas going the way of Phewa
Pokhara’s lesser-known lake is at risk of ecological and livelihood impacts from motorboats
Curiosity did not kill these cats
Fishing cat found dead in small sugarcane patch, approx. 20m from the road. Photo: DIVISION FOREST OFFICE, NAWALPARASIIn January this year, my…
Decline in wintering water fowl
Photo: HEM RAJ BARALExperts have called for urgent protection of wetlands following another winter with a sharp decline in the number of…
Kathmandu creeps up surrounding mountains
As Kathmandu reaches the limits to its growth with nearly every square metre now built up, developers are moving to the slopes on the Valley’s…
Where is the monsoon this year?
Pic: MONIKA DEUPALAIn January 2018, Cape Town faced the possibility of executing a ‘Day Zero’ water plan: the city’s residents would have to…
Project Dragonfly
GOING GOING GONE: A female of the new dragonfly species Microgomphus phewataali discovered last year in Pokhara by naturalists Karen Conniff and…
Shooting Sarus
CRANING ITS NECK: A still from the new documentary Sanctuary showing a caged crane at a monastery in Lumbini.New York-based ecological artist…
Cranes, nature and godliness
Co-founder of the International Crane Foundation George Archibald with Vice Chair of of the Lumbini Development Trust Awadhesh Tripathi. Photo:…