Abhaya Raj Joshi

Abhaya Raj Joshi

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

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wild yaks in Nepal

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

Abhaya Raj Joshi 15 Nov 2022
Air pollution in Kathmandu.

Another winter of discontent as Kathmandu braces for deadly air pollution

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 Nov 2022

Who let the dogs out? Feral canines pose a threat to Nepal’s wildlife

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Oct 2022
Water line in Kathmandu

In temperate Nepal, climate change paves way for tropical dengue fever

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Oct 2022
Pits dug by the bears.

It’s no Yeti, but Tibetan brown bear’s presence in Nepal is no longer a myth

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Oct 2022
Budha looking for snails in a cave.

‘A mollusk is as important as a tiger’: Q&A with Prem Bahadur Budha

Abhaya Raj Joshi 25 Oct 2022
A cordycep dealer.

Local coverage of Nepal’s ‘Himalayan Viagra’ harvest lacks eco focus, study says

Abhaya Raj Joshi 19 Oct 2022
binturong

Enigmatic binturong photographed in Nepal for the first time

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Sep 2022
A lesser adjutant stork in a paddy field

Lesser adjutant stork study in Nepal raises conservationists’ hopes

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Sep 2022
A rhododendron tree

Documenting Nepal’s plant-based medical tradition: Q&A with Ram Prasad Chaudhary

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Sep 2022
A mugger crocodile.

Nepal’s mugger crocs face ‘senseless’ turf war over dwindling fish resources

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Sep 2022

Rare turtles hatch from eggs rescued from flood-prone Nepal riverbank

Abhaya Raj Joshi 16 Sep 2022
Tigers on a forest path.

‘South Asia needs its own tiger plan’: Q&A with Nepal’s Maheshwar Dhakal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 14 Sep 2022

In Nepal, endangered tiger kills critically endangered gharial. What does it mean?

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 Sep 2022

In Kathmandu, when the falcon’s away, pigeons come out to play. And poop

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Aug 2022

Engineers bet on a miracle to bring Nepal’s holy river back to life

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Aug 2022
critically endangered white-rumped vulture

No time to keep vultures out of danger as new Nepal airport set to open

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Aug 2022
A female gharial basking on the banks of Chambal River

Gharials, most distinctive of crocs, are most in need of protection, study shows

Abhaya Raj Joshi 25 Aug 2022
A woolly necked stork (Ciconia episcopus) in flight.

The stork and the farmer: A conservation parable with lessons from Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 24 Aug 2022
sikkim lizard in Nepal

An elusive lizard thought to live only in India makes an appearance in Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 17 Aug 2022
Nepal Beni jomsom road construction

No critical examination of flawed environmental assessments in Nepal, experts say

Abhaya Raj Joshi 11 Aug 2022
A Sherpa with a yak at the base camp of Sagarmatha.

‘Sherpas’ real stories are seldom written’: Q&A with authors Ankit Babu Adhikari & Pradeep Bashyal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 9 Aug 2022
Farmers work at a paddy field in Nepal.

Lack of timely rains, fertilizer hits rice farmers in Nepal’s granary

Abhaya Raj Joshi 8 Aug 2022
A Bengal tiger.

Nepal was supposed to double its tiger population since 2010. It tripled it

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Jul 2022

Can a country have too many tigers? Nepal is about to find out

Abhaya Raj Joshi 25 Jul 2022
elephant nepal jungle

‘Unprecedented crisis’ for Nepal’s elephants: Q&A with conservationist Ashok Ram

Abhaya Raj Joshi 19 Jul 2022
Nepal seed bank

Community-based seed banks in Nepal help conserve native species

Abhaya Raj Joshi 14 Jul 2022
An American black vulture in Nepal.

Sighting of an American black vulture in Nepal causes a flutter

Abhaya Raj Joshi 13 Jul 2022
A member of the Bhimeshwori Sustainable Farming Group at her agroforestry farm in Kavre, Nepal. Image by Abhaya Raj Josh / Mongabay.

Return to agroforestry empowers women in Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 8 Jul 2022

Raise-and-release program keeping Nepal’s gharials alive can be improved, study says

Abhaya Raj Joshi 3 Jul 2022

Return of the king? Pakistan moves to bring gharials from Nepal to its rivers

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 Jul 2022
tiger problem nepal

As Nepal’s tigers thrive, Indigenous knowledge may be key in preventing attacks

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Jun 2022

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