Nepal's unequal wildlife laws
I was watching a talk show. The host was grilling the celebrated Panchyat-era figure former Prime Minister Kirti Nidhi Bista about his...
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Nepal’s wildlife watchdogs honoured
Growing up in a Darchula village near the Tibetan border, a young Birendra Singh Johari was no stranger to wildlife crimes. At teashops and community gatherings,...
Where have Bardia’s rhinos gone?
Between 1986 to 2017, as many as 100 rhinos were translocated from Chitwan to Bardia National Park. Three decades later, only 37...
2020’s tips for 2021
Even if we bid farewell to 2020, it is clear that we will be feeling its impact for the rest of the 2020s.There...
Lax laws make Nepal haven for tiger poachers
Despite being the first tiger range country to claim last year that it has met the target of doubling its big cat...
6 musk deer killed by poachers during lockdown
Poachers have killed six musk deer in the forests inside Sagarmatha National Park using the COVID-19 lockdown period in Nepal, in one of the...
The day of pangolins
Covid-19, the renamed Novel Coronavirus started at a wet market in Wuhan and has already taken the lives of at least 1,400 lives, with more...
What drives wildlife poaching?
Nepal is the first tiger-range country to double the number of the endangered big cats in its reserves, and has marked five...
Better Nepal-China connectivity helps wildlife smugglers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1rSf1D72vY&feature=youtu.beOn 22 March, Qiu Guorong, 40, and Que Labao, 34, had just flown into Kathmandu from Kinshasa when they were intercepted at...
Lesser known endangered species
Saving the last of Nepal's pangolinsLaw enforcement and education, the only way to stop trafficking of endangered animalsSonia AwaleSeizure of pangolin scales...
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