Nepal’s minister sees national parks as a gold mine, not as an ecosystem to be protected
Two nature reserves in Nepal have been recognised for their success in involving local communities to conserve their tiger habitats. Bardia…
Ganges river dolphin back in Nepal’s Narayani River. Photos: TEK MAHATO.It is the best possible New Year 2022 present. A local nature guide in…
On 2 January, the news of an adult tigress struck by a vehicle in Mahendra Highway made the rounds on social media. The photo of the striped big…
Half the world’s biodiversity and half the quarter of world’s population reside along the mountains. And a half of the world’s population…
A rhino that was found dead in Chitwan National Park this week is believed to have been killed with a gunshot, the first rhino to be lost to…
Wild elephants crossing the East-West Highway in Bardia National Park recently. Photo: WWFCutting through the dense jungles of the Tarai…
It is the annual monsoon season, and despite the rains this would be the time of year when tourists flocked to the tributaries of the Karnali…
A snaring crisis is decimating wildlife in Southeast Asia and increasing the risk of zoonotic disease transmission to humans, warns a new report…
Never before has a wild tiger been spotted so high in Nepal as the one caught on a camera trap in the forested mountains of Dadeldhura in…
The Pathibhara helicopter crash was a repeat of the tragedy in Ghunsa in 2006
They may not be as cute, and do not make headlines like tigers, elephants or rhinos, but Nepal’s pangolins are critically endangered and need as…
GOING GOING GONE: A female of the new dragonfly species Microgomphus phewataali discovered last year in Pokhara by naturalists Karen Conniff and…
The Nepal government announced the total number of wild tigers in the country had reached 235, nearly double of what it was in 2009. This means…
Close encounters of a wild kind in Chitwan
After being hunted nearly to extinction, Nepal’s tiger numbers surged in recent decades thanks to a successful conservation program. But with…
MEOW: A Clouded Leopard photographed inside a zoo in Gangtok, Sikkim recently. Pic:Yadav GhimireyAn amateur photographer recently sighted a…
In 1974 Billy Arjan Singh worked out every morning with weights and kept himself fighting fit - with Prince the leopard and Eelie the dog at…
