Community forestry groups in Nepal say the government is going beyond its authority to introduce new rules that would impact how they make their livelihood from forests. The groups say the proposed ...

On the morning of Feb. 6, the road leading to the Bardiya District Administration Office in western Nepal was filled with ...

At the UN Biodiversity Summit during the 75th General Assembly in New York, Nepal proudly stated: “Twenty-three per cent of ...

After degraded forests were leased out to local communities to protect and manage 40 years ago, Nepal’s community forestry program has won international praise for restoring the country’s tree cover.

Kathmandu, March 28 -- year-old from Kanchanpur, Chaudhary has long advocated for human rights and social justice. A legal practitioner and founder of Youth Advocacy Nepal, she has been active in ...

Nepal's community forestry success story has been praised internationally. Other developing countries have tried to emulate it, and in November even The New York Times noticed this success, running a ...

I spent a week in some of southern Nepal’s lushly forested areas, which until recently were barren ravines. Here’s how the transformation happened → In 1978, the country’s leaders adopted a radical ...

Nepal has, for the first time, launched a nationwide survey to identify the actual status of medicinal herbs across the ...

A new REDD+ program in Nepal is poised to protect about 2.4 million hectares of forests between 2019-2024. Kathmandu, Nepal – A new REDD+ program in Nepal is poised to protect about 2.4 million ...

Nepal is grossly ill-equipped to deal with forest fires, with only 67 community forests having trained forest fire management groups out of 19,000 community forests in the country. During a discussion ...