biodiversity

Nepali wins Whitley Award 2025

Another grassroots conservationist from Nepal is among the winners of this year’s environmental award

Vishad Raj Onta

The Tarai’s shrinking forests

Nepal’s forest cover has doubled in 25 years, but illegal logging is thinning the southern jungles

State vs Nature

Nepal’s Supreme Court has summoned the President Chure Terai Madhesh Conservation Development Board and the National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC) in...

Not out of the woods yet in Nepal

The draft of a new national park and wildlife conservation bill threatens to undo Nepal’s decades-long success in nature protection

People, tigers, trees and rivers

On World Tiger Day, a look at Nepal's intricate web of biodiversity and conservation

Biosphere on the brink

Despite our best efforts, it is almost too late for nature in the Hindu Kush Himalaya

Saving Kangchenjunga

The biodiversity treasures of eastern Nepal are at risk from new roads, outmigration and climate change

Where wild things are

Just a short drive from the Ring Road is Pulchoki, Kathmandu Valley’s biodiversity treasure trove

Save Nepal’s orchids

Himalayan orchids need urgent protection before they are smuggled to extinction

Including local knowledge to study climate change

Scientist couple spend six months researching climate impact on glaciers and biodiversity below Kangchenjunga

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