Republica
'Army Day' marked through fanfare, displays
Republica
The President and Supreme Commander of Nepal Army (NA) Bidya Devi Bhandari paid homage to the martyrs at the 'Brave Soldier Monument' before receiving the "Guard of Honor" by a contingent of Nepal Army to mark the Army Day that coincides with the ...

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The Independent
Indian woman 'burned alive by relatives in honour killing' eight years after eloping with lover
The Independent
Eight years ago, the now-30-year-old woman had rejected her family's choice husband to elope with her lover, a man named Prakash Sevak. Sevak belonged to a different caste, making theirs a rare — and contentious — union. So much time had passed, ...

Kathmandu Post
A case for the endangered owls
Kathmandu Post
Mar 7, 2016- Around 225 species of owl are found in the world; of which, two were listed on the IUCN Red List last year. Nepal is home to a total of 21 species of owl and four species among them are categorised as endangered. However, none of the ...

The Independent
The West's desire to 'liberate' the Middle East remains as flawed as ever
The Independent
As I was reading de Wailly's book, I took a call from British artist Tom Young – the same painter whose efforts to save Beirut's Ottoman "Pink House" were recorded in this column two months ago – who told me that he's now trying to preserve the ...

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Govt plans study of wetlands in 22 districts
Kathmandu Post
... and encroachment, the government with support from the Global Environment Facility and United Nations Development Programme had launched a five-year project on Conservation and Sustainable Use of Wetlands in Nepal (CSUWN) between 2008 and ...

DAWN.com
Indus river route -Photo courtesy Al Jazeera
DAWN.com
The meeting point was in Nepal because of visa issues between India and Pakistan, the two countries that predominantly share the Indus waters. The ultimate source of the Indus is in Tibet (now in China); then it flows northwest through Ladakh (in India ...

The New Indian Express
The Jungle Boys
The New Indian Express
According to a recent World Wildlife Fund report, Hidden Himalayas: Asia's Wonderland, between 2009 and 2014, at least 211 new species have been discovered in the Eastern Himalayas, which spans Nepal, Bhutan, northeast India, southeast Tibet and ...

Kathmandu Post
A new home for rhinos
Kathmandu Post
These translocations will further help stabilise the rhino populations at Bardiya and Shukulaphanta and as the first rhino headed into the forest cover, one couldn't help but feel that an important milestone in Nepal's rhino conservation efforts had ...
5 Chitwan rhinos successfully transferred to BardiyaHimalayan Times

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The World Weekly
The activism that drives Leonardo DiCaprio's acting
The World Weekly
But over the last few years he has increasingly used his fortune and his foundation to support conservation efforts. DiCaprio's foundation donated $3m in 2014 to stop overfishing, $3m to protect tigers in Nepal, and funding Sala's initiative to create ...

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Himalayan Times
Over dozen trees felled illegally in Banke National Park in a month
Himalayan Times
Interestingly, the area is only two kilometres from the Mahadevpuri post of the Nepali Army. ... “A probe committee has been formed under the coordination of the assistant conservation officer Rabin Chaudhary to investigate the matter,” said Bhandari.

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Kathmandu Post
Over 100 bird species under threat
Kathmandu Post
The first ever assessment of the national conservation status of Nepal's birds released on Thursday, said that loss of forests, wetlands and grasslands due to human encroachment for settlements, agriculture and unsustainable resource extraction such as ...

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Feeling the heat
Republica
Another provision in the INDC commits to maintaining 40% of Nepal's land under forest covers. This is not an unrealistic target since we are already close to this range. However, this number means next to nothing if we cannot provide relevant ...

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Feeling the heat
Republica
Another provision in the INDC commits to maintaining 40% of Nepal's land under forest covers. This is not an unrealistic target since we are already close to this range. However, this number means next to nothing if we cannot provide relevant ...

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Land of our daughters
Nepali times
With most men gone, rural Nepal has been feminised. Women have more of a say in school and health post management, in forestry and irrigation user groups, and in farming cooperatives. This may be why, despite purposeless governments in Kathmandu, ...

Discovery News
What Does It Take to Move 5 Rhinos?
Discovery News
Conservation missions like the rhino translocation require cooperation across all levels, starting with the national government and trickling down to law enforcement, communities and conservation NGOs like WWF. Nepal's many conservation successes ...

Progress.org
The Economy and Happiness of Bhutan
Progress.org
The main industries in Bhutan are agriculture, forestry, tourism, and hydroelectricity. The government exerts ... In the 1990s, Bhutan expelled many of its ethnic Lhotshampa population, which was moved to refugee camps in Nepal. They are not happy ...

Community forests thriving in Banke, Dang and Bardiya
Kathmandu Post
“Out of 507 community forests in Banke, 104 forests have been protected by active participation of locals,” said Shovakar Sapkota, the district chairman of the Federation of Community Forestry Users, Nepal. Another Jyoti Community Forest at Gadhawa-8 ...

Kathmandu Post
Looking at Chure
Kathmandu Post
Mar 3, 2016- The degradation of the Chure region has become a critical environmental challenge in Nepal, with downstream consequences across the Tarai and even in parts of North India. Land degradation is a widespread problem in the Tarai due to the ...

Kathmandu Post
Looking at Chure
Kathmandu Post
Mar 3, 2016- The degradation of the Chure region has become a critical environmental challenge in Nepal, with downstream consequences across the Tarai and even in parts of North India. Land degradation is a widespread problem in the Tarai due to the ...

Kathmandu Post
Rhino translocation resumes after 13 yrs
Kathmandu Post
The Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation (MoFSC) has planned to carry out translocation of 30 rhinos from Chitwan to two potential habitats—BNP and Sukhlaphanta Wildlife Reserve in the next 2-3 years. Chitwan, according to 2015 ... While the ...

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