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Confiscated skins of poached leopards in Chitwan, Nepal.

In biodiverse Nepal, wildlife crime fighters are underpowered but undeterred

Abhaya Raj Joshi 16 Oct 2023
Ruddy ducks in East Rapti River next to the protected Chitwan National Park.

Conservationists condemn Nepal proposal to allow hydropower in protected areas

Abhaya Raj Joshi 11 Oct 2023
Local fishermen harvesting seaweed in Bangladesh.

Seaweed: The untapped economic potential for Bangladesh

Farhana Parvin 10 Oct 2023
A scaly laughing thrush in Nepal.

Conservation success lies with governments, not NGOs: Q&A with Hem Sagar Baral

Abhaya Raj Joshi 10 Oct 2023

Conservationists urge caution as Nepal to gift more rhinos to China

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Sep 2023
Snow leopards, because of their shy nature, size, and style of hunting, stand to lose the most as the wolves move in. Image by Tambako The Jaguar via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0).

Return of the wolf to Nepal’s Himalayas may threaten snow leopards

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Sep 2023
A mother long-tailed macaque with her young

Habitat loss drove long-tailed macaques extinct in Bangladesh, experts say

Rafiqul Islam 29 Sep 2023
A farmer holds green vegetables in his farm.

Salinity hinders Bangladesh agriculture; groups respond with seeds & information

Abu Siddique 28 Sep 2023
Representative image of smooth-coated otters.

First otter sighting in Nepal’s Chitwan park in two decades raises questions

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Sep 2023
A herd of Asiatic elephants in Assam.

Video: Rice as a peace offering in India’s human-elephant conflict capital

Biswajit Das, Mongabay.com 27 Sep 2023
A rhino in a river in Chitwan National Park.

A rhino-less reserve in Nepal is set to get its first two rhino habitants

Abhaya Raj Joshi 21 Sep 2023
Tailors are seen working on a production line in a local garment factory in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh apparel industry makes progress in ‘eco-friendly’ manufacturing

Ibrahim Hossain Ovi 19 Sep 2023

Taking up the cause of red pandas: Q&A with actor and activist Dayahang Rai

Abhaya Raj Joshi 15 Sep 2023
A sub-adult Bengal tiger on the river bank.

Sundarbans tiger and prey numbers rise amid Bangladesh conservation efforts

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 11 Sep 2023
Pigeon flock in Nepal

Super flock of pigeons leaves Nepali researchers asking what happened

Abhaya Raj Joshi 8 Sep 2023
Fishing boats in the Sundarbans.

Court order fails to stop poison fishing in Bangladesh Sundarbans

Farhana Parvin 1 Sep 2023

Nepali researchers yet again photograph snow leopard, leopard in same place

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Aug 2023
Raju Acharya in the remote field in Accham district, western Nepal.

‘Owls are valuable only when alive’: Q&A with conservationist Raju Acharya

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Aug 2023

In a world of climate risks, Sri Lanka is finding ways to adapt

Dennis Mombauer 31 Aug 2023
Vulture Nepal

Nests of hope: Nepal’s vulture colonies hold on amid new threats

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Aug 2023
A scaly-breasted munia in Natore, Bangladesh.

A thriving online market for wild birds emerges in Bangladesh

Maksuda Aziz 29 Aug 2023
An electric car charging.

Bangladesh to produce lithium batteries, electric vehicles to cut emissions

Abu Siddique 28 Aug 2023
Rama Mishra and an assistant with a fishing cat in a fish-farming area in Sunsari district.

‘More research leads to more awareness’: Q&A with fishing cat expert Rama Mishra

Abhaya Raj Joshi 24 Aug 2023
A red-breasted parakeet.

When it rains, it pours: Bangladesh wildlife trade booms during monsoon

Mahadi Al Hasnat 21 Aug 2023
A sarus crane flies over an agricultural field.

Has the Buddha’s legacy in Nepal helped save sarus cranes?

Abhaya Raj Joshi 17 Aug 2023
Fishermen fishing for crabs in the wild.

As Bangladesh’s crab fishery booms, its wild stocks suffer the fallout

Farhana Parvin 16 Aug 2023
A tiger (Panthera tigris) recorded on a camera trap in Bhutan during the national tiger census 2021-2022. Image courtesy of WWF-US.

As Bhutan reports big boost in tigers, coexistence strategies become necessary (commentary)

Dechen Dorji 8 Aug 2023
Ponkar Lake is a moraine-dammed glacial lake in Bimthang Valley in Manang, Nepal. Image courtesy of Sudan Bikash Maharjan/ICIMOD.

Nepal’s climate change adaptation strategy needs One Health approach (commentary)

Krishna Prasad Acharya, Shamsudeen Fagbo 4 Aug 2023
Nepal nearly tripled its tiger population in 12 years.

Nepal won’t set fresh tiger number goal, to focus on coexistence, connectivity

Abhaya Raj Joshi 3 Aug 2023

Photos: Sri Lanka’s Kalametiya lagoon draws tourists to see native and migrant birds

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 31 Jul 2023
A snow leopard captured on a camera trap.

When wildlife surveillance tech ‘watches’ people

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Jul 2023
rhinos grazing Nepal

Wild or not? Dilemma over two human-friendly rhinos in Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Jul 2023

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