Abhaya Raj Joshi

Abhaya Raj Joshi

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Abhaya Raj Joshi is a staff writer for Mongabay based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Find him on Twitter via @arj272.

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India cheetah births spark interest in fast felines in neighboring Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 3 Apr 2023
A tiger in water.

Do tiger-dense habitats also help save carbon stock? It’s complicated

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Mar 2023

Human migration to Nepal’s tiger capital adds to conservation challenges

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Mar 2023
rhino calves in Chitwan

For rescued rhino calves in Nepal, return to the wild is a fraught option

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Mar 2023
The National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition team climbs up a steep slope.

Sagarmatha microbes may survive harsh conditions for decades

Abhaya Raj Joshi 21 Mar 2023
vulture Nepal

Nepal’s vultures, recovering from a poisoning crisis, fly into another

Abhaya Raj Joshi 16 Mar 2023
A snow leopard captured by a camera trap.

As Himalayas thaw, snow leopards scramble for habitat: Q&A with Bikram Shrestha

Abhaya Raj Joshi 14 Mar 2023
A snow leopard in the Himalayan landscape.

Himalayan catfight looms as tigers, leopards venture into snow leopard land

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Feb 2023
A Bengal tiger crossing a road.

For tigers in Nepal, highways are a giant roadblock best avoided

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Feb 2023

Nepal’s community forest program misses the biodiversity for the trees

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Feb 2023
A pair of cheer pheasants.

Mating season rings death knell for cheer pheasants in Nepal’s western Himalayas

Abhaya Raj Joshi 21 Feb 2023
A leopard.

In Nepal, conservationists suspect link between canine distemper and human-leopard conflict

Abhaya Raj Joshi 10 Feb 2023
Three wild water buffaloes.

Nepalis’ love of momos threatens endangered wild water buffaloes

Abhaya Raj Joshi 6 Feb 2023

‘Grumpiest cat’ leaves its calling card on the world’s highest mountain

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Jan 2023
A leopard cub on a tree branch.

With climate change, Nepal’s leopards get a bigger range — and more problems

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Jan 2023
Two Egyptian vultures.

Proximity to humans both boon and bane for Egyptian vultures in Nepal’s Pokhara

Abhaya Raj Joshi 24 Jan 2023
A greater one-horned rhino and her calf.

Rare case of rhino poaching jolts conservation community in Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Jan 2023
Pokhara Airport in Nepal with the Himalayan range in the background

Bird strike warnings resurface amid probe into deadly Nepal plane crash

Abhaya Raj Joshi 18 Jan 2023
Tulshi Laxmi Suwal.

‘Sustainable livelihoods go a long way’: Q&A with pangolin expert Tulshi Suwal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 18 Jan 2023
A tiger leaping.

The tiger in the snow: Cameras capture abundance of life in a Himalayan refuge

Abhaya Raj Joshi 13 Jan 2023
A Bengal tiger sits on a road in neighboring India.

For Nepal, 2022 was a roaring Year of the Tiger

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Dec 2022
Pleione praecox flowers.

Illegal orchid trade threatens Nepal’s ‘tigers of the plant world’

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Dec 2022
A man carries a feral dog.

Himalayan community takes initiative to help dogs, wildlife and itself

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Dec 2022
Pits dug by the bears.

Of Yetis and extinct turtles: Top wildlife discoveries in Nepal in 2022

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Dec 2022
A greater one-horned rhino and her calf.

Crafting Nepal’s conservation success: Q&A with Sharad Chandra Adhikary

Abhaya Raj Joshi 21 Dec 2022
Lulilan obscurus is a newly discovered scorpionfly from Nepal. Image courtesy of Rainer Willmann

‘Bizarre’ newly classified scorpionfly shines light on Nepal’s insect diversity

Abhaya Raj Joshi 17 Dec 2022
A red panda.

New standard brings best practices to bear in Nepal’s red panda conservation

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Nov 2022
A tusker in the wild.

In Nepal, officials defend detusking to reduce human-elephant conflict

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Nov 2022

Hunting takes its toll on Himalaya’s blue sheep, favored prey of snow leopards

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Nov 2022
black softshell turtle

In Nepal, a turtle that rose from the dead makes another grand entrance

Abhaya Raj Joshi 21 Nov 2022

Ahead of polls, Nepal’s political parties, voters take heed of climate impacts

Abhaya Raj Joshi 18 Nov 2022
wild yaks in Nepal

Nepal’s wild yaks ‘need more conservation than research’: Q&A with Naresh Kusi

Abhaya Raj Joshi 15 Nov 2022

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