Nepal News

RSS
397 stories
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
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

On the roof of the world, water is life. Or a sign of it, thanks to eDNA

Abhishyant Kidangoor 14 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

you're currently offline