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 ...

Students in Pokhreni Secondary School in Sundarijal prepare to plant a sapling in Kathmandu. A unique ‘tree twinning’ project between British and Nepali schools has shown how trans-continental ...

KATHMANDU, July 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Put women in charge of cultivating forests and the trees grow stronger. That's the takeaway from a pioneering 30-year scheme that has elevated women to ...

Measurable species range shifts and changes in composition of forest vegetation in the Nepalese Himalaya have been already attributed to global climate change. This global driver of ecological change ...

Buddha Chitta mala (also referred to as Bodhichitta mala) is a type of prayer bead necklace revered in Tibetan Buddhism. Chinese demand for the beads has triggered an explosion in the industry in ...

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — More than 2,000 people, mostly students wearing their school uniforms, gathered in Nepal’s capital on Thursday in a bid to set a world record for the largest tree hug.

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 ...

WWF has signed an agreement with a biogas company in Nepal to promote alternative energy sources aimed at reducing pressure on threatened forest areas. Kathmandu, Nepal – WWF's programme office in ...

Kanchanpur, May 9 -- Tree felling has finally begun for the construction of the Dodhara Chandani dry port in Nepal's far west. Set to become Nepal's fourth dry port along its border with India, the ...

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 ...

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