On The Road: Rhino Translocation in Nepal
With one palm above the rhino’s nostril to check its breathing and another under its head to make sure it wasn’t slumping, an anxious official yelled over the sound of…
Articles by Kashish Das Shrestha
Kashish Das Shrestha is an independent sustainable development policy analyst and an international research collaborator to Stanford University (2014-2015).
He is an advisor to the chairman of Nepal's Agriculture and Energy Committee Hon. MP Gagan Thapa.
A former journalist, his writings have also appeared on the New York Times – Dot Earth, Nepali Times, and the Kathmandu Post amongst others. He was NITI Foundation's 2012 renewable energy policy fellow. Kashish tweets at @Kashishds
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