4+ hour, 14+ min ago  (236+ words) Cliff honey hunting tradition lives on...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (419+ words) BANKE, April 27: The under-construction Sikta Irrigation Project in the district has turned into a death trap for wildlife. The western main canal of the project is not animal-friendly. Wildlife approaching the canal to quench their thirst frequently get trapped in…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (795+ words) These days, carbon markets are being sold as a tidy answer to a very untidy problem: If a company keeps polluting in one part of the world, it can offset that by paying to protect or restore forests elsewhere. Those…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (221+ words) Today, environmental criticism is advancing in an atmosphere in which postmodernism, on the one hand, challenges established truths, and simultaneously posthumanism challenges anthropocentric narratives. Both of these approaches suggest new ways of interpreting texts. More specifically, the posthumanist approach reimagines…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago  (469+ words) KATHMANDU, March 5: As the Earth's temperature continues to rise, scientists are increasingly documenting subtle yet significant shifts in animal behavior. A recent study conducted in the United States has found that rising temperatures are directly altering the sound and quality…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (434+ words) KATHMANDU, Feb 26: Nepal and India have signed a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (Mo U) on bio-diversity conservation." The Mo U to this effect was signed in the presence of Minister for Forests and Environment of Nepal, Madhav Prasad Chaualgain, and Minister…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (983+ words) Yet behind this success story lies another story. One of a community being torn apart by unprecedented human-wildlife conflict, and Nepal's conservation establishment looking on with apparent calculated indifference. The Trophy Hunting Hypothesis What if this humanitarian disaster was deliberately…...

5+ mon, 6+ day ago  (1670+ words) Hansraj stands at the edge of his land near Haripur Forest Range in Pilibhit, a city in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It's the break of dawn. The sugarcane in his farm stands tall and wet from the…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (311+ words) KATHMANDU, Nov 19: Actress and animal-rights advocate Sunny Leone has called for an immediate end to the use of elephants in the Chitwan Elephant Festival, saying the event is built on "cruelty, suffering and exploitation." Her statement comes as several major…...

6+ mon, 3+ day ago  (338+ words) BARDIYA, Nov 6: Water species such as fish, ghongi (freshwater snails), crabs and sutahi (mussels) are becoming increasingly rare in the fields, rivers, streams, and wetlands of the region. Baliram Tharu, 60, from Jagatiya in Badhaiyaatal rural municipality-5, recalls, "We used to…...