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Royalty and Hollywood for Nepal’s Tigers

June 15, 2025

Gobinda Prasad Pokharel

It was the second week of Chaitra, 2072 (March 2016), Prince Harry of the United Kingdom was on a rafting trip along the Khoriya River in Bardiya. Bird expert Hem Sagar Baral, wildlife expert Shanta Raj Gyawali, nature guide Rajan Kshetri and others were accompanying the trip. Baral had brought two expensive binoculars made by Swarovski. Aware of the etiquette and formalities needed when meeting a member of the royal family, including appropriate language and dress, the team was cautious. However, Harry stood out as different from other royal family members.

Nepal’s first Wild Dog Conservation Action Plan

May 30, 2025

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Gobinda Prasad Pokharel

Nepal has always been playing a leading role in global conservation efforts. In April this year, it hosted an international snow leopard workshop with participation from representatives of range countries. Nepal is also the first country to fulfill the international commitment of doubling its tiger population. These achievements have earned the country several international awards for its conservation efforts.

Beyond the Summit : Kancha Sherpa’s untold Story of Everest 1953

May 20, 2025

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Gobinda Prasad Pokharel

90 year old Kancha Sherpa spend these days at Nirvana Homes, Namche chanting gospels for world peace. Reminiscing those days, he feels quite surprising to note how the Mount Everest expedition became a successful story. In a brief interaction with the members of Himalayan Climate Bootcamp this April, he shared the story of Mount Everest expedition including its challenges.

Saving ‘The Souls of Himalaya’

May 11, 2025

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Gobinda Prasad Pokharel

An international conference on snow leopard conservation was recently convened in Nepal. This conference bought together experts, academicians, researchers, and policymakers from the range countries to strengthen scientific collaboration and conservation efforts. The conferenced focused on cross-border coordination and knowledge exchange to ensure the long-term survival of the snow leopard in its 12 range countries.

Footprints on forest floors, Fingerprints on satellites: The Chepang Story

April 27, 2025

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In 1977 AD, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands visited Tiger Tops Hotel in Chitwan to attend the WWF-1001 Club program, coordinated by then-Crown Prince Gyanendra Shah.During that visit, King Birendra was shown the dire condition of the Chepang community. When a Chepang leader said, “Your Majesty, we are your subjects (Praja),” the King agreed. That same year, a grand Chepang conference was held for the first time in Jyamire, Makwanpur district. Princess Princep Shah, then the central president of the Nepal Red Cross Society, declared, “From today, you are not Chepang; you are Praja (subjects).’

Restoring Chitwan’s grasslands

April 25, 2025

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Gobinda Prasad Pokharel

The Chitwan National Park is home to 92 percent of Nepal’s greater One-horned Rhino population. The latest rhino count of 2021 reports 694 out of 752 individuals. To sustain mega herbivores like the rhino, grasslands play an important role by balancing the natural ecosystem and providing food and shelter. The rhino, Tiger and the Bengal floricans and other species are thriving inside these grasslands, which support a large number of rare and endangered species. Grasslands help to maintain a balanced ecosystem in nature by providing nutrients and water, and also acting as carbon sinks.

Sharpie and Trump : The Pens of U.S Presidents in Politics

March 24, 2025

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Gobinda Prasad Pokharel

As soon as Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, he issued a series of executive orders. Withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, WHO, pardoning the people convicted in the 2021 Capitol riot, declaring a national emergency at the southern border and establishment of Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under Elon Musk’s leadership were the major executive orders during the inagural day. According to the National Archives and Records Administration, 26 executive orders were issued on the first day of inaugural. By the time of writing this article as of 14th March 2025, 89 of Trump’s executive orders had been made public by the National Archives.

काठमाडौं उपत्यकाका वनस्पति चिनाउने पुस्तक

March 16, 2025

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काठमाडौं उपत्यकाका नागार्जुन, शिवपुरी,ककनी-टोखा, सुन्दरीजल-चिसापानी-साँखु, गोदावरी-फूलचोकी, हात्तीवन-चन्द्रागिरी, साँखु-नगरकोट-नाला, गोकर्ण, सूर्यविनायक, वाग्मती करिडोर क्षेत्रको वनस्पतिको विवरण समेटिएको यो पुस्तक निकै नै उपयोगी छ ।

वनस्पति विज्ञानको अध्ययन र अनुसन्धानमा नेपालको उपस्थिति निकै नै कमजोर छ । सीमित स्रोत साधनका कारण वनस्पति विज्ञान अध्ययन र अनुसन्धान गर्नेहरू घट्दो क्रममा छन् । नेपालका वनस्पतिविद्हरू मातृभूमि छाडेर विभिन्न देशलाई कर्मभूमि बनाउन बाध्य छन् ।

Transforming human wildlife conflict into opportunity : Hatti Beshar

February 10, 2025

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Farmers in Madhuwan Municipality at Bardiya were frustrated as their crops were repeatedly destroyed by elephants, wild boars and other wildlife. Despite multiple attempts human-wildlife conflict persisted. In response to this issue National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC) linked this conflict with opportunity.

Addressing monkey menace in Nepal

July 2, 2023

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The ongoing issue of the monkey menace in Nepal has sparked debate among policymakers and stakeholders on conflict mitigation.

Some advocate for budget allocation as a solution, thinking funding will reduce the problem. Others suggest alternative farming practices, while some argue that vasectomy procedures for male monkeys could be more effective.

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