Nepal’s self-made champion for protection of nature now says protect people first
The government’s proposal to auction tigers for hunting is another gross illustration of greed, incompetence and malgovernance
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…
Piprahar in Chitwan. Photo: MUNA THAPA/WWF NEPALIndigenous people and local communities provide the best long-term outcomes for conservation at…
Tigers (left-female/right-male) photographed during the Chure study in the forests of Kapilvastu, Rupandehi, and PalpaA new paper has reported…
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…
Photos: SALIK RAM CHAUDHARYBefore Covid-19 and lockdowns I would be guiding tourists around Bardia National Park this time of year. But the…
Nearly a year after he was arrested, the ringleader of a notorious wildlife smuggling network, Kunjok Lama, has been served seven years in jail…
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…
Sudarshan Panthee and Birendra Singh Johari of the Nepal Police Central Investigation Bureau, the recipients of 2021 Asia Environmental…
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…
When researchers installed camera traps deep in the forested mountains of western Nepal last year, they expected to capture lots of shots of…
Photo: WWFWhen a wildlife census in Chitwan National Park in 2013 counted 120 tigers, conservationists were elated. It meant Nepal was well on…
Piprahar in Chitwan. Photos: MUNA THAPA/WWF NEPALNepal serves as a global tiger conservation success story. Despite a decade-long civil war,…
A leopard inside Chitwan National Park. All photos: SAGAR GIRIAs Nepal’s tiger population doubles in ten years, leopards are coming out of the…
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…
Fast running out of space for rescued wildlife, the Central Zoo wants to expand to Bhaktapur
THE 6TH EXTINCTION: This orchid with medicinal properties, Dactylorhiza hatagirea, (Panchaule) is an endangered species.Nepal is situated at the…
With poaching under control, the big new threat to Nepal’s nature is from infrastructure
GOING GOING GONE: A female of the new dragonfly species Microgomphus phewataali discovered last year in Pokhara by naturalists Karen Conniff and…
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…
After being hunted nearly to extinction, Nepal’s tiger numbers surged in recent decades thanks to a successful conservation program. But with…
