SARLAHI, Nepal — In 1984, Bharat Kumar Pokhrel was a young forester with a mission to turn theory into practice. Fresh out of forestry school, he joined Nepal’s Sagarnath Forest Development Project. Primarily based in Sarlahi district and extending into neighboring Mahottari in the southeastern Terai landscape, the project’s star crop was red river gum … Continue reading In Nepal, a eucalyptus boom became an ecological cautionary tale