Mukesh Pokhrel

About

Mukesh Pokhrel is a Nepal-based environment and climate journalist with over two decades of experience. A Fellow of the Singapore National University and the Earth Journalism Network, he is also a member of the Oxford Journalism Network. His work has been featured in outlets such as Thomson Reuters Foundation, Climate Home News, and RT International.

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A sarus crane photographed in Lumbini. Image by Mukesh Pokhrel.

Concrete sprawl in Buddha’s birthplace in Nepal threatens sarus cranes

Mukesh Pokhrel 19 May 2025

A fishing cat

Fishing cats misunderstood, misidentified in Nepal’s Kapilvastu

Mukesh Pokhrel 25 Apr 2025

Nilgai antelope (Boselaphus tragocamelus)

Farmers in Nepal and India see red as blue bulls raid their crops

Mukesh Pokhrel 7 Mar 2025

Ganga Thapa, a farmer in Sarlahi’s Ishworpur municipality, points towards the eucalyptus plants affecting her farm. Image by Mukesh Pokhrel.

In Nepal, a eucalyptus boom became an ecological cautionary tale

Mukesh Pokhrel 25 Feb 2025

News and Inspiration from Nature's Frontline.

In Java, communities help reconnect fragmented forests to help save the endangered Javan gibbon

Amazon rainforest in Ecuador. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

A cup of coffee with beans and a teaspoon on a stump tabletop. Image by Anja (cocoparisiene) from Pixabay (Pixabay Content License).

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