Reinventing Chitwan's Elephant Festival to be enjoyed by both humans and pachyderms
When I arrived in February, Bahundangi in Jhapa seemed like a sleepy little town, but the quiet was often interrupted, not by traffic or noisy…
Prime Minister Chandra Shamsher Rana (left) with King George V (right) during a 1911 hunting expedition in the Tarai. Ten years later, he hosted…
The illegal export of domesticated elephants from Nepal to India Chitwan due to the collapse of wildlife tourism that began during last year’s…
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…
Before Covid-19 and lockdowns I would be guiding tourists around Bardia National Park this time of year. But the pandemic has meant empty…
domesticated elephant used for safaris in Chitwan National Park which was being illegally transported to India in contravention of the CITES…
Sudarshan Panthee and Birendra Singh Johari of the Nepal Police Central Investigation Bureau, the recipients of 2021 Asia Environmental…
Safari elephants on the streets of Sauraha. Photo: ISAZHumans and elephants have shared environments for thousands of years, but what might…
Lisa Choegyal’s column ‘The Elephant Dilemma’, 4 October 2020 elicited many comments from readers, some of which are excerpted here:As a group…
Little known fishing community clings to life at the edge of the jungle
By following the sound science, Nepal could lead Asia in tourism best practice
Nepal is the first tiger-range country to double the number of the endangered big cats in its reserves, and has marked five successive years of…
Nepali Times #990How ironic, when we destroy something created by man we term it as ‘vandalism’ but when we destroy something created by nature…
The first thing one notices these days while travelling by road in the Tarai are hundreds of cattle blocking the East-West Highway, mainly at…
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…
Such was the allure of adventure in Chitwan, parents actually paid for their offspring to work at Tiger Tops
The blue sky was clear and early afternoon sunlight bounced off the glaciers, gullies and rock walls of the Langtang peaks, but the helicopter…
Catching up with Col John Blashford-Snell, the army explorer and Nepal aficionado
