In the eight years that Basudev Pokharel has worked as a forest guard, he has rarely seen a fire as huge as the one that ...

A Latahar tree in Jhapa's Jalthal forest. All photos: LILA NATH SHARMA Deep inside Jhapa’s Jalthal forest, a group of us botanists were identifying the diversity of flora in the lowest-lying part of ...

Four people from Arghakhanchi and one from Dailekh died this week from injuries sustained while trying to put out wildfires fanned by high winds near their communities. Ten more people were injured in ...

Nepal’s government can’t distribute land in national parks and forest areas to landless individuals, the country’s Supreme Court has ruled, emphasizing the protection of natural resources. Land ...

KATHMANDU — Nepal has too many tigers and too much forest, according to the country’s leader. The offhand remarks by Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli at a Dec. 26 event in Kathmandu on climate change ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Forests flourish under community control, and NASA has the satellite imagery to show it. Forests flourish under ...

A new REDD+ program in Nepal is poised to protect about 2.4 million hectares of forests between 2019-2024. Kathmandu, Nepal – A new REDD+ program in Nepal is poised to protect about 2.4 million ...

State Forest Department on alert; a 61-year-old farmer killed when he was sleeping in a hut in latest incident ...

Across Nepal, five cable car projects have opened in the past two years -- and 10 more are under development, according to government figures - Copyright AFP Prakash ...

Forests are disappearing at an alarming rate of 10 million hectares each year and about 12% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions are attributed to deforestation and forest degradation. But nature ...

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