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A yak pasture in the Lungbasamba landscape.

Reporting confirms alleged Indigenous rights violations in Nepal hydropower project

Sonam Lama Hyolmo and Latoya Abulu 12 Aug 2024
An Aedes aegypti mosquito, the species that carries dengue.

In the wake of Bangladesh’s deadliest dengue outbreak, researchers respond

Hailey Smalley 2 Aug 2024
A protest in Phungling, a town of 29,000 people, where roads, restaurants and businesses were closed entirely.

In Nepal, a cable car in a sacred forest sparks swift, and controversial, direct action

Alice Millington 31 Jul 2024

‘Lost’ snow leopard to remain at Kathmandu zoo, officials say

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Jul 2024
A common Jezebel (Delias eucharis).

Scientists are racing to save South Asia’s butterflies from the threat of extinction

Hailey Smalley 31 Jul 2024

In Nepal, criticizing government conservation policies is becoming harder

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jul 2024

Nepal’s railway rerouting plan to avoid Chitwan park sparks fiery backlash

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jul 2024
Students at the Gora Dhangmari Forest Primary School display clay sculptures they made for a final project in art class.

Dhaka international symposium gathers at the intersection of art & climate crisis

McKenna Johnson 29 Jul 2024

Rhino poop draws all the deer (and boars and more) to the yard, study finds

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Jul 2024
A wild boar at Parsa National Park.

Nepal’s youngest national park looks to elevated lanes to prevent roadkill

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Jul 2024
Two common male rat snakes in Chitwan National Park, Nepal.

Nepal’s shifting biodiversity research landscape: Interview with Karan Bahadur Shah

Abhaya Raj Joshi 18 Jul 2024
An endangered Gee's golden langur (Trachypithecus geei).

‘A harmonious human-primate society’: Interview with Whitley winner Kuenzang Dorji

Choki Wangmo 17 Jul 2024
Morchella esculenta mushrooms, locally called gucchi.

Traditional foods have the potential to help Kashmir communities adapt to climate change: study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 16 Jul 2024
Fishermen in the Sundarbans do not have internationally-recognized rights.

Sundarbans fisherfolk are battered by cyclones amid fishing bans

Sadiqur Rahman 15 Jul 2024

Nepal launches new plan to boost critically endangered Bengal florican

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jun 2024
Activists demonstration in Kathmandu demanding water in Nepal's Terai.

Activists blame policy failures over climate change for Nepal Terai’s water crisis

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Jun 2024
Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

From the Amazon to the Himalayas, an invasive catfish makes its Nepal debut

Abhaya Raj Joshi 20 Jun 2024
Stilt mangrove roots in West Bengal's Sundarbans.

Caught in the net: Unchecked shrimp farming transforms India’s Sundarbans

Niladry Sarkar 19 Jun 2024
Greater one-horned rhinos in Chitwan, Nepal.

Nepal’s top engineering, forestry colleges to align on development and conservation

Abhaya Raj Joshi 17 Jun 2024
A greater necklaced laughingthrush (Pterorhinus pectoralis).

Nepal’s legal barriers hinder genetic research, forcing scientists to improvise

Abhaya Raj Joshi 14 Jun 2024
Exhausted black kites

Black days for black kites in Bangladesh’s growing capital city

Sadiqur Rahman 10 Jun 2024
A tiger in the mangroves.

Media must help reduce conflict between tigers and people in the Sundarbans (commentary)

Mafizul Islam 6 Jun 2024
Tigers in Nepal. Photo credit: DNPWC/NTNC/Panthera/WWF/ZSL

Fear and hardship for the last community inside Chitwan, Nepal’s tiger central  

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 Jun 2024

Nepal court rules protected areas and forests off-limits for land distribution

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 May 2024
Smooth-coated otters in Borneo.

On World Otter Day, an uphill struggle for these creatures in Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 May 2024
Elephants

Exploring the science of Asian elephants: Interview with Sanjeeta Sharma Pokharel

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 May 2024

Innovative Nepali PSA seeks emotional connection to save red pandas

Abhaya Raj Joshi 24 May 2024
A pair of lesser adjutants in the Sundarbans.

Bangladesh to formalize fire mitigation plans for Sundarbans as burning risk rises

Abu Siddique 22 May 2024
oriental pied hornbill

New database unveils the role of Asian hornbills as forest seed dispersers

Carolyn Cowan 15 May 2024
A red-whiskered bulbul in Nijhum Dwip.

Bangladesh island’s switch from solar power to fossil fuels threatens birds

Sadiqur Rahman 14 May 2024
A caracal.

Ridiculously rare photo catches Asian caracal swimming a river in India

Jeremy Hance 10 May 2024
A climate change protest in the U.S. in 2017.

Experts highlight importance of ‘prebunking’ to combat climate disinformation

Choki Wangmo 10 May 2024

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