In a posthumously published book, Chandra Gurung documents the conservation-with- development model he pioneered
The sarangi is suddenly ‘cool’ again, the music spreading awareness about conservation and discrimination
Nepal’s Supreme Court has summoned the President Chure Terai Madhesh Conservation Development Board and the National Trust for Nature…
Nepal’s self-made champion for protection of nature now says protect people first
Raju Acharya wins the 2024 Whitley Award to protect the endangered nocturnal birds in central Nepal
The government’s proposal to auction tigers for hunting is another gross illustration of greed, incompetence and malgovernance
Nepal’s minister sees national parks as a gold mine, not as an ecosystem to be protected
On the Day of Serpents, profile of a young Nepali couple volunteering to rewild rescued snakes
The Rafflesia is the largest flower in the world, growing in the jungles where Gurkhas fought a guerrilla war
New Zealand professor Patrick Devlin taught a whole generation of Nepali conservationists
New building in Taplejung is not just a training centre, but a base camp for Kanchenjunga trekkers
Himalayan orchids need urgent protection before they are smuggled to extinction
All photos: Anil RaiColin Smith lies in his hospital bed dressed in a blue button-up, and the trademark Dhaka topi perched on his head. The…
On World Rhino Day, a Nepali conservationist recounts being nearly gored to death, and a lesson in conservation
A wild ox Gaur spotted in Chitwan. Photo: BABU RAM LAMICHHANEOn the morning of 4 May, I got a call from the chief warden of Kosi Tappu Wildlife…
The Taleju Temple of Patan with the Mulchok courtyard in 2019. Photo: NHDP.Seven years ago, on a particularly gloomy Saturday, the ground…
Next generation buffer zone policies will help conserve the country’s natural diversity for the future
In June 2019, a team from the National Archives reached Taplejung in eastern Nepal to find decaying handwritten parchments, centuries-old…
Photo: LIEW YU WEI/NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVEMany great cities and civilisations in world history have collapsed, their populations forced to…
3 May 2009 has a special significance for Tulsi Laxmi Suwal, as it was the day she found a mother pangolin with her new-born pup inside the…
Sonam Tashi Lama, a Nepali grassroots conservationist working to protect the country’s endangered red panda is among 15 activists shortlisted…
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…
Vehicular and wildlife crossings ongoing construction at East-West electrified railway lines near Bardibas, Nepal. Photos: PRAMOD NEUPANENepal’s…
It must be a cosmic confluence that just as the world leaders gather in Glasgow next week to try to save the planet, we in Nepal mark the tragic…
