Mukesh Pokhrel

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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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Nepal plans park for ‘problem’ tigers as attacks raise concerns

Abhaya Raj Joshi, Mukesh Pokhrel 24 Apr 2026

Residents of a buffer zone collecting firewood. Image by Abhaya Raj Joshi/Mongabay.

In Nepal, calls for reform grow louder in buffer zones

Mukesh Pokhrel 27 Mar 2026

A village in Dolakha.

Nepal’s community forests sit on unsold timber

Mukesh Pokhrel 10 Feb 2026

Grassroots forest protection succeeds where planting drives fail in Nepal

Mukesh Pokhrel 23 Dec 2025

The Indigenous tradition sustaining Nepal’s alpine pastures amid climate change

Mukesh Pokhrel 30 Sep 2025

An Indian pond heron or paddybird (Ardeola grayii) in a pond in Nepal.

In Nepal, artificial ponds offer drought relief despite lingering doubts

Mukesh Pokhrel 28 Aug 2025

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.

Collage, Jahëna Louisin, Mongabay reporter, and a Vodun ritual

Installing an IFAW-supported temporary solar fence in Chikomeni chiefdom, within the Malawi-Zambia Transfrontier Conservation Area, to deter human-elephant conflict. Image courtesy of IFAW.

Photographer Jonathan Bachman was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for capturing a photograph of Ieshia Evans being arrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was Ieshia Evans first protest, and Bachman’s first time covering one. The photo was included in The New York Times’ “The Year in Pictures 2016,” among other honors. jonathan bachman / reuters. Shepard Fairey—a prolific artist and activist who often addresses social and political issues in his work—was invited by the authors of ‘Protest’ to interpret Bachman’s photograph for the book. Image credit to Shepard Fairey. Image Courtesy of Patagonia Books.

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