Begnas going the way of Phewa
Pokhara’s lesser-known lake is at risk of ecological and livelihood impacts from motorboats
wetlands
Curiosity did not kill these cats
In January this year, my husband sent me an image of a small dead cat. A forest officer in West Nawalparasi had...
Decline in wintering water fowl
Experts have called for urgent protection of wetlands following another winter with a sharp decline in the number of migratory water fowl...
Kathmandu creeps up surrounding mountains
As Kathmandu reaches the limits to its growth with nearly every square metre now built up, developers are moving to the slopes on...
Where is the monsoon this year?
In January 2018, Cape Town faced the possibility of executing a ‘Day Zero’ water plan: the city’s residents would have to queue...
Project Dragonfly
The morning was warming up in late spring last year when entomologist Karen Conniff took a boat across Phewa Lake in Pokhara for one...
Shooting Sarus
New York-based ecological artist and activist Lillian Ball is not a film-maker. But her activism to protect the world’s wetlands through images brought her...
Cranes, nature and godliness
George Archibald is Co-founder of the International Crane Foundation and is in Kathmandu for the consecration of the crane sanctuary in Lumbini. He spoke...
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