Central
Zoo launches ‘Adopt an Animal’ campaign as it
struggles to survive : Under the programme, anyone can
adopt an animal from the zoo and take full
responsibility, including its food, nourishment and
medication for a year (kp 04/04/2021)
Tiger
photographed in Rupandehi, Kapilvastu and Palpa after
several years : The latest report that recorded the
sighting of tigers in three districts of the Chure
region, not only shows Chure as a healthy ecosystem
and home for valuable species but also calls for
improved conservation of the zone, facing several
challenges (kp 03/03/2021)
Action
plan for conservation of owl species (ht
28/02/2021)
Nepal’s
wildlife watchdogs honoured : Nepal Police
investigators win the UN’s Asia Environmental
Enforcement Awards for prosecuting wildlife
traffickers, by Sonia Awale (nt 26/02/2021)
Conservationists
say tigers have been living in Kailali forests for a
long time, by Pushpa Raj Joshi (rep 25/02/2021)
In
a first scientific bird survey, Shivapuri Nagarjun
National Park records 197 species The figure is
smaller than the 320 species recorded informally by
enthusiasts in the past but officials say after the
three phases of the survey, the number could go up,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 23/02/2021)
Satellite
technology used to study tiger behaviour, movement and
response to disturbances : Findings of the first study
of its kind in the country, which will track six
tigers, will help in saving the species from adverse
impacts of infrastructure projects, conservationists
say, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 21/02/2021)
Authorities
scramble to deal with tiger threat in Kailali : While
conservationists call for relocation, the district
administration has already issued an order saying the
animal can be killed if required, by Chandan Kumar
Mandal (kp 18/02/2021)
Two-year-old
rhino found dead; death tally reaches 25 (rep
18/02/2021)
Nine
Leopards Died In 4 Years Due To Lack Of Treatment,
by Nabin Shishir BK (rn 17/02/2021)
Govt
To Conduct Rhino Census (rn 17/02/2021)
After
delays, authorities gear up to count country’s rhinos
this season : Officials at protected areas across the
country have moved ahead with the preparations for
conducting the census, which is likely to begin in
March this year, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
14/02/2021)
Premature
Death Of Elephant Raises Concerns At CNP (rn
13/02/2021)
Fourteen
arrested on charge of poaching rhinos (rep
10/02/2021)
Struggling
Central Zoo asks for Rs 150 million grant from
government : To remain afloat during the pandemic, the
zoo, which used to receive 3,000-4000 visitors daily,
has already laid off staffers and announced pay cuts,
by Anup Ojha (kp 09/02/2021)
Protecting
Lumbini’s rare cranes : Sarus Cranes hold spiritual
significance because of their association with the
Buddha, by Rajendra N Suwal (nt 05/02/2021)
Ghodaghodi
lake area being developed into bird habitat : With
natural lakes in Kailali drying up, authorities are
making efforts to turn Ghodaghodi wetland area into
one of the main habitats of migratory as well as
domestic birds, by Ganesh Chaudhary (kp
31/01/2021)
Wildlife
experts believe there could be more tigers living in
hill areas : After tiger sightings in Dadeldhura and
Ilam, wildlife experts say there could be more tigers
living in or migrating to the hill areas due to
improved green cover and prey abundance, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 26/01/2021)
Leopard
found dead in Dang (kh 24/01/2021)
Woman
injured in Dang tiger attack (kh 24/01/2021)
Wetlands
across Nepal see decline in waterbird population :
Preliminary findings from the waterbirds census show
that their population has gone down, mainly due to
habitat loss and other human activities, according to
experts, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 22/01/2021)
22
rhinos found dead in Chitwan National Park in past
seven months (rep 22/01/2021)
Human-elephant
conflict: Long-term solution needed, by Basant
Subba (ht 21/01/2021)
Wild
boars wreak havoc in settlements near Langtang park,
by Balaram Ghimire (kp 21/01/2021), The
boar of Langtang : Parks must find effective ways to
lessen human-wildlife conflict (kp 22/01/2021)
Wildlife
rescue operations in Palpa unsafe due to ill-equipped
forest offices : Forest officials and security
personnel lack tranquiliser guns and various other
equipment required for a safe and immediate rescue of
wildlife, by Madhav Aryal (kp 21/01/2021)
Conservationists
worried about dwindling number of common cranes : The
number of migratory common cranes coming to the
country has been decreasing of late due to shrinking
paddy fields and wetlands, conservationists say,
by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp 12/01/2021)
Tiger,
leopard cat found dead in Chitwan, Tanahun (rep
12/01/2021)
Illegal
wildlife trade finds a new marketplace—social media :
Traders are turning to social media to reach out to
potential customers to sell wild animals for
their meat and to be kept as pets, in the domestic
market, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 09/01/2021)
Elephant
dies of electric shock in Saptari (kh 09/01/2021),
Electrocution
of maleelephant highlights human-wildlife conflict :
Every year, Nepal loses wild elephants to retaliation.
But affected people say they live in fear of the
animals, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 11/01/2021)
145
species of birds found in Bhaisegauda (kh
08/01/2021)
Infrastructure
projects threaten biodiversity conservation, affect
wildlife: Study; A rapid assessment of projects in the
Tarai has found adverse consequences on forests,
habitats, animals’ movement and growing negative
interactions between humans and wildlife, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 05/01/2021)
19
Rhinos Die In Seven Months (rn 05/01/2021)
Tiger
attacks on humans : Ways to stay safe, by Babu
Bhattarai (ht 04/01/2021)
Tiger
attack incidents continue in and around protected
areas : Six people have lost their lives in tiger
attacks in and around Bardiya National Park so far
this fiscal year, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
04/01/2021)
Leopard
Terrorizing Village Captured (rn 04/01/2021)
Human-wildlife
conflict escalates in lack of wildlife friendly
infrastructures (kh 04/01/2021)
Wildlife
rescue centre established (kh 04/01/2021)
Reducing
roadkill: All concerned must follow stringent measures
to mitigate wildlife mortality due to traffic
accidents (kp 04/01/2021)
Number
of wildlife increasing in Shey Phoksundo (kh
03/01/2021)
Tiger
from Parsa National Park killed in road accident :
This is the third time a speeding vehicle has killed a
tiger on the East-West Highway in recent years, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 02/01/2021), Death
of a tiger in traffic accident highlights the threat
to wildlife sheltered in national parks : A speeding
car kills the big cat in Parsa. Data shows wild
animals are being killed on highways in worryingly
high numbers, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
03/01/2021)
Woman
missing as a tiger runs her down from a motorcycle,
by Nirmal Ghimire (rep 02/01/2021)
Fragmented
population of snow leopards in Nepal’s Everest region
raises concerns : Researchers discover two clusters of
the iconic species with limited genetic diversity in
the region, by Abhaya Raj Joshi and Chandan Kumar
Mandal (kp 30/12/2020)
Underpasses
on Narayanghat-Muglin road section ease wildlife
movement : Researchers call for development of more
wildlife-friendly roads and highways after study finds
animals using the four underpasses built along the
road section, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
29/12/2020)
Koshi
Tappu ‘killer’ elephant has calmed down: Officials :
There were calls to put down the elephant, an idea
that was widely condemned by wildlife conservationists,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 28/12/2020)
Tigers
roaming in community forest (ht 27/12/2020)
Arrest
of poachers in Bardiya raises alarms : Latest incident
in Bardiya suggests that poachers are still on the
prowl in and around the protected areas, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 22/12/2020)
Birth
of calves gives hope for conservationists of
increasing Arna population : Wild water buffaloes
brought to Chitwan from Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve
initially struggled to survive in their new habitat
but they are slowly getting used to it, by Chandan
Kumar Mandal (kp 20/12/2020)
Nepal’s
highest-ever tiger sighting : A tiger has been caught
in a camera trap roaming forests at 3,165m in the
mountain forests of Ilam (nt 18/12/2020)
Residents
of Koshi wildlife reserve buffer zones demand killing
of a rogue elephant : A team from Chitwan National
Park has arrived at the reserve to study the
elephant’s behaviour, by Pradeep Menyangbo (kp
17/12/2020), Officials,
conservationists debate fate of elephant that recently
killed man in Sunsari, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
18/12/2020), Give
them space : We cannot mitigate elephant-human
conflicts without addressing their shrinking habitats
(kp 18/12/2020), How
To Manage A Violent Elephant That Is Killing People?,
by Indira Aryal (rn 19/12/2020)
Kanchanpur
sees increasing inflow of migratory birds (kh
17/12/2020)
Number
of rhinos up in Bardiya National Park (ht
16/12/2020)
Crocodiles
released to Rapti River (kh 15/12/2020)
One
dies in tusker attack in Sunsari (kh 14/12/2020)
Tigers
sighted high in the hills. Wildlife experts wonder why
they are moving up north : Improved green cover, less
disturbance in upper regions compared to the Tarai,
where they are facing habitat loss and decline
in prey, could be encouraging tigers to move up,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 13/12/2020)
Central
zoo comes up with new guidelines preparing to reopen :
Authorities await nod from the government to start
welcoming visitors by following health protocols to
prevent the spread of Covid-19, by Chandan Kumar
Mandal (kp 08/12/2020)
Tourism
in key tiger reserves : Involve local communities,
by Babu R Bhattarai (ht 08/12/2020)
Tuskers
trash houses, grains worth millions (ht
07/12/2020)
Experts
suggest internal relocation to reduce rhino deaths in
ChitwanMost of the protected rhinos have been found
dwelling in the western sector of Chitwan
National Park, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
06/12/2020)
Nepal
all set to conduct national rhino census this winter
(rep 03/12/2020)
16
rhinos die in CNP this fiscal year (rep
28/11/2020)
Set
the elephants free : Chitwan can be promoted as a
completely ride-free, chain-free area for elephants,
by Michelle Szydlowski (nt 27/11/2020)
'Green
pigeon' spotted in Jhapa (rep 26/11/2020)
Jagadishpur
lake welcomes thousands of migratory birdsBirds from
as far as Siberia, China, Mongolia, Turkmenistan, and
Kyrgyzstan, among other countries, migrate to
Jagadishpur lake every year during winter,
ornithologists say; Over 200 people visit the lake, a
Ramsar wetland site in Kapilvastu, on a daily basis to
birdwatch, by Manoj Paudel (kp 24/11/2020)
Wild
tusker kills 55-yr-old man in Chitwan (kh
23/11/2020)
Elephant
found dead in Saptari (kh 22/11/2020)
Kali-Karnali
jungle corridor proposed : Nepal’s highest ever tiger
sighting prompts calls for a new conservation zone,
by Mukesh Pokhrel (nt 20/11/2020)
Camera
traps installed in Tanahun to study leopards and their
prey : Officials suspect low prey numbers are driving
the big cats into human settlements attacking
people, by Samjhana Rasaili (kp 19/11/2020)
Tiger
kills five in a month in Bardiya (ht 12/11/2020)
Adult
female leopard found dead (kh 12/11/2020)
Adolescent
killed in leopard attack in Dadeldhura (rep
10/11/2020)
Four
rhinos killed in Chitwan National Park, ending four
years of zero poaching (ht 09/11/2020)
Conservationists
see glimmer of hope with increasing number of gharials
in Rapti river : The total gharial population in their
natural habitats across the country stands at 230,
by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp 07/11/2020)
Chitwan
can accommodate more tigers : A new study says Chitwan
and Parsa National Parks have enough prey for a larger
tiger population, by Tufan Neupane (nt
06/11/2020), Unsung
heroes of Nepal’s tiger recovery : Indigenous peoples
are the real stewards of the country’s conservation
success story, by Smriti Dahal (nt 06/11/2020)
Tiger
Terror In Bardiya As Man-Eaters Kill Four People In 10
Days, by Indira Aryal (rn 05/11/2020)
Two
rhinos found dead in Chitwan [kh 05/11/2020), Female
rhino and her calf found dead inside Chitwan National
Park : The mother and baby rhinos were found on
Tuesday with their horns removed, park officials
say, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp 06/11/2020), Poaching
Of One-Horned Rhinos On The Rise In Chitwan National
Park, by Basanta Parajuli (rn 07/11/2020)
Chitwan
Park forms team to look into rising rhino deaths :
Experts will also recommend ways to minimise mortality
of the vulnerable animal, by Chandan Kumar Mandal
(kp 30/10/2020)
Trekking
to save Nepal’s snow leopards : Let the mountains rest
during Covid-19, but come back next year for the Snow
Leopard Conservation Trek in Dolpo, by Sonam
Choekyi Lama (nt 30/10/2020)
Two
dead in tiger’s attack in Bardiya (kh 27/10/2020),
After
Chitwan National Park, Bardia’s tigers are attacking
local people : While many believe the soaring
population of tigers may be behind the rise in
attacks, experts say increased human-animal
interaction post-monsoon could be the reason, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 29/10/2020)
Lalitpur
mayor hands over Rs1 million to
revenue-stricken Central Zoo : Zoo staffers are taking
a 50 percent pay cut so that animals can be fed,
officials said, by Anup Ojha (kp 23/10/2020)
Retaliatory
killings major challenge for snow leopard conservation
: As the country celebrates International Snow Leopard
Day, wildlife experts highlight the need to address
human-wildlife conflict in the mountain cat’s range
areas to save them, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
Deaths
signal return of tuberculosis among captive elephants
: The disease seems to be afflicting
domesticated elephants again a decade after it
was last reported, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
16/10/2020)
The
elephant dilemma : By following the sound science,
Nepal could lead Asia in tourism best practice, by
Lisa Choegyal (nt 16/10/2020)
Saving
Nepal’s flyway for migrating cranes : On World
Migratory Bird Day, let us pledge to protect the
trans-Himalayan migratory route of Demoiselle Cranes,
by Rajendra N. Suwal (nt 16/10/2020)
Chitwan’s
killer tigers no longer threat, experts say : While a
maneater has been captured, wildlife experts have
ruled out threats from the second animal that attacked
a human deep in the forest, by Chandan Kumar
Mandal (kp 13/10/2020)
Chitwan
National Park saw dramatic rise in rhino mortality in
last three years, report says : Since the start of
October this year, five rhinos were found dead in the
park, by Narayan Sharma (kp 10/10/2020)
Rhino
found dead in Chitwan (kh 08/10/2020)
Shey
Phoksundo National Park to use drone camera to stop
poaching (kh 08/10/2020)
Snow
leopards eating livestock despite availability of
preys in habitat, study says : Latest research on the
snow leopard inside Shey Phoksundo National Park
challenges commonly held notion that wild animals
enter human settlements in search of food, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 06/10/2020)
Rhino
found dead at Chitwan National Park (kh
04/10/2020), Two
Rhinos Dead On Single Day (rn 06/10/2020)
Man
killed in Chitwan tiger attack (kh 27/09/2020)
Tiger
carcass found inside Bardiya National Park, by
Kamal Panthi (kp 26/09/2020)
Shuklaphanta
park makes great strides in blackbuck conservation :
The park has increased blackbuck population to 113,
beyond the target, but now there is concern over
limited space for the animals in the sanctuary, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 23/09/2020)
World
Rhino Day: Challenges In Conservation Of One-Horned
Rhino, by Narayan Adhikari (rn 22/09/2020)
Leopard
found dead in Baitadi (kh 22/09/2020)
After
two postponements, pandemic pushes rhino count further
Counting of one-horned rhino, which was scheduled for
March 2020, is likely to take place only next year
with Covid-19 concerns and a wait for perfect timing,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 20/09/2020)
Country’s
lone zoo struggles to sustain with no visitors for
months amid the pandemic : For years, the zoo has
survived on entry frees paid by the public, but now
the facility is looking up to the government for
support to feed animals and pay staff, by Chandan
Kumar Mandal (kp 13/09/2020)
Killing
of a one-horned rhino after 41 months of zero poaching
is worrisome for conservationists, authorities : The
death of a rhino in Chitwan National Park leaves
conservationists fearing pandemic might see a new
start of poaching incidents similar to the past if
left unchecked, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
11/09/2020)
International
Vulture Awareness Day: Vultures Increasing With Ban Of
Diclofenac (rn 05/09/2020)
Snake
menace in north Mahottari: 120 snake bite cases in a
month (kh 18/08/2020)
Stray
dogs terrorise Bhairahawa locals: 243 people treated
at a local hospital for dog bites in the past one
month, by Madhav Dhungana (kp 14/08/2020)
Surveillance
to protect red panda cubs begins in hill districts of
Province 1: The nurturing season of red panda cubs has
begun and this is the time when they are at their most
vulnerable, say conservationists, by Ananda Gautam
(kp 13/08/2020)
Nepal’s
elephant population trapped between human settlements
and mega development projects: As the country's
development aspirations grow bigger, its wild
elephants are losing their habitats, conservationists
have warned, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
13/08/2020), An
elephantine conundrum: Ongoing and proposed mega
projects pose major threats to the elephant population
(kp 14/08/2020)
Watch
the birds: The feathered friends are key to
conservation as their ecological roles far supersede
human capacities (kp 04/08/2020)
Owl
conservation action plan a long overdue step,
conservationists say: The country has 23 species of
owls which have been facing threat because of hunting,
illegal trade and habitat loss, by Chandan Kumar
Mandal (kp 03/08/2020)
Chitwan
and Parsa can sustain more tigers, says government
study: A study on the ecological carrying capacity of
tigers has shown that these two parks can support
approximately 175 tigers in future., by Chandan
Kumar Mandal (kp 01/08/2020)
When
it comes to tiger conservation, we must consider the
unexpected, by Dipesh Joshi (rep 29/07/2020), Return
of the tigers: Political will to fulfil international
commitments will be Nepal’s ultimate test to meet
conservation goals (kp 31/07/2020), New
challenges surface in tiger conservation as numbers
increase, by Yadav Acharya (ae 31/07/2020), Lax
laws make Nepal haven for tiger poachers: Smugglers
caught by investigators use legal loopholes and
judicial corruption to escape, by Tufan Neupane
(nt 31/07/2020)
Underpasses
to reduce roadkill in Nepal: More than 400 wild
animals were killed on the East-West Highway in past
three years, by Tufan Neupane (nt 24/07/2020)
Freshwater
dolphins make comeback in Nepal: The blind aquatic
mammals swim upstream to breed during the monsoon,
by Unnati Chaudhary (nt 24/07/2020)
Electric
wire traps set up for wild elephants turn into death
traps for locals: Although it’s illegal to construct
electric fences in the fields, the locals in northern
and southern belts have been doing that to ward off
wild elephants, according to the Division Forest
Office in Jhapa, by Parbat Portel (kp 19/07/2020)
Rising
Conflict Between Man & Wildlife In Nepal, by
Roshana Chauhan (rn 04/07/2020)
Wild
elephants wreak havoc in settlements in Sunsari:
Incidents of human-animal conflict are increasing with
the shrinking of forestland, say conservationists,
by Pradeep Menyangbo (kp 03/07/2020)
Victims
of wildlife attack outside buffer zone in Chitwan
National Park area covered by community insurance
policy: The national park does not provide
compensation to victims if the incident occurs outside
the bufferzone, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp
23/06/2020)
CCTV
cameras to track leopards (ht 23/06/2020)
Migratory
dolphins return to Nepali waters earlier than usual:
An early sighting of the Ganges river dolphin leaves
locals happy, but conservationists worry about their
future, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 18/06/2020)
Wildlife
poaching up in Bajura (ht 15/06/2020)
Tracking
Nepal’s red panda by satellite: All ten red pandas
fitted with GPS collars are moving about merrily in
the forests of Ilam (nt 12/06/2020)
Ghariyal
journeys 1,062 km to Hoogli (ht 26/05/2020)
Injured
wild elephant dies while being tranquilised for
treatment: The adult tusker hadn’t been able to to
walk since the past two weeks, say locals, by Raj
Kumar Karki (kp 21/05/2020)
Surge
in wildlife deaths in Gorkha worries forest officials:
Four leopards, two barking deers, and a wild cat have
been found dead in various places in the district
during the lockdown period, by Hariram Uprety (kp
18/05/2020)
Street
Dogs Find It Tough To Survive Through Lockdown, by
Sampada Anuranjanee Khatiwada (rn 10/05/2020)
A
large flock of endangered Asian woolly neck spotted in
eastern Chitwan: This is an exciting development for
bird watchers and conservationists, say ornithologists,
by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp 08/05/2020)
Former
soldier kills leopard (ht 08/05/2020)
Lockdown
Comes As Boon To Wildlife In Chitwan National Park
(rn 02/05/2020)
Frail
white-rumped vulture tagged in Nepal rescued in India:
The 12 year-old bird had been released from the
vulture breeding centre in Nawalparasi (East) in
November 2019, by Manoj Paudel (kp 30/04/2020)
Captive
elephants are out of work in Sauraha and they don’t
get enough to eat: Local authorities have allowed
elephants to graze on the banks of the Rapti. But
owners say authorities need to do more, by Chandan
Kumar Mandal (kp 21/04/2020)
Wood
smuggling, wildlife poaching cases up (ht
17/04/2020)
Tiger
sighted at a record altitude of 2,500 metres in
Dadeldhura forest: Officials say more research
required to find out if big cats are climbing up in
search of prey or due to climate change, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 14/04/2020)
Lockdown
becomes blissful for urban birds: Decline in noise
pollution may help bird population increase in valley,
by Ujjwal Satyal (ht 14/04/2020)
Resunga
and Madane forests sanctuaries for birds: More than 25
percent of the total 886 bird species found in the
country are spotted in Resunga and Madane forests,
conservationists say, by Birendra KC (kp
20/03/2020)
Birdsong:
Where do we get our bird names from? Folklore and
human interactions with species give us some unique
sounding names, by Amish Raj Mulmi (kp 20/03/2020)
Govt
to conduct rhino census from March 23 (ht
18/03/2020), Nationwide
rhino count postponed due to Covid-19 concerns: The
count was taking place amid alarming deaths in Chitwan,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 21/03/2020)
Leopard
menace in Tanahu: Leopard injures 21-month-old baby
girl, mother saves her child's life by snatching her
from the leopard, by Binod Dhungana (rep
18/03/2020)
Vulture
numbers up in Dailekh (ht 17/03/2020)
Locals,
entrepreneurs join hands to manage habitat for wild
animals in Chitwan: Degradation of habitat has been
blamed for clashes between animals, leading to a rise
in their mortality inside, by Chandan Kumar Mandal
(kp 10/03/2020)
Baitadi
locals face leopard menace: The problem cannot be
resolved until wildlife experts conduct a study on
leopards in the area and recommend action, officials
say, by Tripti Shahi (kp 09/03/2020)
Alarming
rate of deaths threatens rhinos: The threat of
one-horned rhino poaching, which was at its peak
during the armed insurgency, is no more. What’s
worrisome is the high number of deaths in the past few
years from unspecified natural causes, by Chandan
Kumar Mandal (kp 05/03/2020)
Birgunj
locals attempt to save bats: Jagarnathpur residents
say bats are the pride of their community, by
Shankar Acharya (kp 03/03/2020)
Endangered
vulture species spotted in Jajarkot, by Janak KC
(rep 29/02/2020)
Wild
orchids in Dolakha forests gradually disappearing:
Illegal trade of the flower, lack of awareness among
consumers, deforestation and haphazard construction of
roads through forest areas are the major threats for
orchid conservation, by Rajendra Manandhar (kp
26/02/2020)
Government
removes penalties for killing wild boar, raising
concern among conservationists: After complaints from
farmers that the animals were destroying their crops,
the wild boar has been listed as a ‘pest’ and can thus
be captured and killed, by Chandan Kumar Mandal
(kp 25/02/2020)
Bagmati
province allocates Rs4 million to curb monkey menace:
The programme will come into effect primarily in four
villages of Sindhupalchok and Kathmandu, by Pratap
Bista (kp 24/02/2020)
Himalayan
wolf awaits special recognition as subspecies, if not
as an entirely new species: A series of studies over
the years concluded that Himalayan wolves have adapted
genetically to survive in high altitudes, a quality
that makes them different from other wolf species,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 23/02/2020)
Focus
on grassland to prevent rhino deaths (ht
22/02/2020)
200
monkeys in Thapathali are in trouble. They neither
have home nor food: The High Powered Committee for
Integrated Development of the Bagmati Civilization
says it’s not aware of the monkeys, ward chair wants
to cage the free-roaming animal, by Anup Ojha (kp
18/02/2020)
Shuklaphanta
lures bird watchers: A recent report of the fresh bird
species count, which was made public in December last
year, has revealed 26 additional bird species in
Shuklaphanta. With this, a total of 450 bird species
are found in the protected area, by Bhawani Bhatta
(kp 16/02/2020)
Wild
tuskers terrorise locals in Jhapa (ht 16/02/2020)
Save
the pangolins: Pangolins are on the verge of
extinction. They need to be saved, by Sabitri Rai
(rep 15/02/2020)
Coronavirus
outbreak may curb wildlife trafficking: China ban on
animal markets could stop threatened species being
smuggled through Nepal, by Sonia Awale (nt
14/02/2020)
National
owl festival in Syangja raises awareness on owl
conservation: Various programmes—such as bird
watching, nature photography, exhibition on owl
conservation, and essay and poetry competition among
school students—were organised during the two-day
festival, by Deepak Pariyar (kp 09/02/2020)
Youths
helping birds, animals quench thirst in valley (ht
09/02/2020)
Kavre
villagers face threat from wild animals: Farmers have
been deprived of compensation for the crops destroyed
by monkeys, by Nagendra Adhikari (kp 04/02/2020)
13
rhinos die in seven months at CNP (ht 30/01/2020),
Two
rhinos found dead in CNP (rep 30/01/2020), Three
rhinos found dead in four days in Chitwan National
Park: Poaching may have decreased in the last few
years, but natural deaths have affected rhino
conservation efforts, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp
31/01/2020)
Animal
rights activists urge Nepal to end elephant abuse
(rep 29/01/2020), International
experts and animal welfare campaigners urge Nepal to
end elephant abuse: Nepal should not endanger its
reputation by continuing elephant abuse, safaris and
games for Visit Nepal 2020 campaigns, experts warn,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 30/01/2020)
Wildlife
hit as river changes course (ht 27/01/2020)
Leopard
mauls 10yo boy to death in Tanahun (ht 27/01/2020)
Rules
framed for gifting wildlife to foreign nations (ht
26/01/2020)
Smuggling
of animal body parts continues unabated (ht
25/01/2020)
Drying
up of Geruwa river affects irrigation, wildlife: Silt
deposit in the river caused by floods has stopped the
water flow in Geruwa, causing a decline in the level
of water, by Kamal Panthi (kp 22/01/2020)
Wildlife
from Chure forests entering human settlements in
search of water: Animals like wild boars and blue
bulls reach settlements that border with India,
terrorising the locals, by Laxmi Sah (kp
22/01/2020)
Number
of water birds increasing in Jagdishpur lake: Fresh
bird count shows 5,827 more aquatic birds in the
artificial lake constructed for irrigation purposes,
by Manoj Paudel (kp 21/01/2020)
Parsa
National Park prioritises grassland expansion: The
park covers an area of 637.39 sq km and is spread
across Parsa, Bara and Makwanpur districts, by
Shankar Acharya (kp 19/01/2020)
Poverty
alone not a leading cause for involvement in illegal
wildlife trade, new study says: Most inmates currently
serving jail terms for wildlife trade knew that the
activity was illegal but were unaware of the severity
of the consequences, according to the study, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 18/01/2020)
Leopardess
found dead in Pokhara (ht 18/01/2020)
Wildlife
poaching up after snowfall in Bajura (ht
17/01/2020)
A
marauding wild elephant wreaks havoc in Handikhola:
The elephant from Parsa National Park has been on the
loose for the past few days, by Subash Bidari (kp
16/01/2020)
Solar-powered
electric fencing to stop tuskers (ht 13/01/2020)
The
wildlife lesson: Wildlife is one of the neglected
career fields in Nepal but if we can develop ourselves
as wildlife enthusiasts, it has plenty to offer to us,
by Shreyashi Bista (rep 12/01/2020)
Endangered
red panda spotted along Langtang trekking trail: A few
months ago, an anti-poaching patrol team from the
Langtang National Park spotted five red pandas in the
Polangpati area, by Balaram Ghimire (kp
09/01/2020)
Tanahun
village terrorized after leopard kills child, by
Binod Ghungana (kp 06/01/2020), Lack
of prey behind increasing leopard attacks in Tanahun,
by Santosh Pokharel and Sgree Hari Poudel (rep
07/01/2020)
Leopard
mauls eight-year-old boy to death in Tanahun (ht
06/01/2020)
Himalayan
salamander at risk (ht 05/01/2020)
Tigress
with cubs enters settlement, locals terrified, by
Yogesh Rawal (rep 03/01/2020)
Wild
tuskers damage more than 18 homes in 24 hours (ht
31/12/2019)
Leopard
kills toddler, by Binod Dhungana (rep 31/12/2019)
Female
leopard trapped in iron-cage in Tanahun (ht
27/12/2019)
Two
local units in Rolpa make policies for red panda
conservation: The estimated number of red pandas—known
as Habre in Nepali—is fewer than 10,000 in the world,
with around 1,000 of them located in Nepal, by
Kashiram Dangi (kp 25/12/2019)
Wild
boars and monkeys become a menace in Pyuthan: The
animals have been destroying fields, causing financial
loss to locals. Yet, concerned stakeholders have
remained silent spectators, by Giru Prasad
Bhandari (kp 24/12/2019)
SC
directive against inhumane animal transportation
(ht 24/12/2019)
Migratory
birds decline due to food, habitat loss, by Ujjwal
Satyal (ht 23/12/2019)
Saving
Bengal tiger: National effort alone will not suffic,
by Basant Subba (ht 23/12/2019)
New
rules allow commercial farming, reproduction of wild
animals (ht 22/12/2019)
Monkeys
terrorise locals in Ramechhap district (ht
22/12/2019)
Masterplan
for ‘open zoo’ in Jhapa ready (ht 10/12/2019)
Fresh
count finds 26 new bird species in Shuklaphanta
National park: A recently released report states that
a total of 450 bird species, including 23 endangered
species, can be spotted in the national park, by
Bhawani Bhatta (kp 18/12/2019)
Two
rhinos in Sauraha are wandering freely out in the
open, worrying everyone: According to a 2015 count,
Nepal is home to 645 rhinos, including 605 in Chitwan
National Park, 29 in Bardia, eight in Shuklaphanta,
and three in Parsa National Park, by Ramesh Kumar
(kp 17/12/2019)
Chitwan
National Park to expand the habitat of wild water
buffaloes: The park has allocated Rs10 million for
expansion and upgradation of the Arna habitat; An
additional 15-20 hectares will be added to existing
wild buffalo habitat, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
16/12/2019)
Heavy
snowfall in Khaptad, wildlife at risk, by Arun Bam
(rep 16/12/2019)
Human-wildlife
conflict up in Kanchanpur: Conflict-prone places lie
along the zoological corridor between Nepal and
India (ht 13/12/2019)
As
monkeys menace Gandaki Province, locals turn to
innovative methods of control: Locals are setting up
traps, hiring trappers, blasting music, and even
domesticating monkeys to prevent them from running
amok, by Lal Prasad Sharma (kp 12/12/2019)
Two
women trampled to death by elephant (rep
12/12/2019)
Save
vulture campaign launched in eastern Nepal (ht
12/12/2019)
Tradition
meets modern science: In snow leopard conservation,
by Sheren Shrestha and Samundra Subba (ht 11/12/2019)
Tusker
terror in Udayapur (ht 10/12/2019)
Animal
rights activists decry mass slaughtering of animals at
Gadhimai (kp 09/12/2019)
Banke
National Park to release gharials into the Rapti
river: Shivakhola, Sikta and Gabhar areas, which fall
under the national park, have been identified as major
habitats of gharials, perfect for its conservation,
by Thakur Singh Tharu (kp 08/12/2019)
Rhino
conservation abound with challenges: Recently, a male
rhino was found dead on the bank of the Narayani river
in Chitwan National Park, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel
(kp 07/12/2019)
Wild
boars entering runway pose threat to planes, by
Arjun Oli (rep 07/12/2019)
Despite
protests from animal rights activists, tens of
thousands of animals are being slaughtered in
Gadhimai: In line with the Supreme Court’s order to
work towards eliminating animal sacrifice, the temple
has decided to stop sacrificing pigeons, by Laxmi
Sah (kp 03/12/2019), Ritual
sacrifice at Gadhimai shrine begins, photos barred
(ht 04/12/2019) [This brutal
and completely senseless slaughter of innocent
creatures must never be called a "ritual sacrifice".
It is simply barbaric!], Contempt
of court case against govt, Gadhimai Trust for animal
sacrifice (rep 04/12/2019)
GPS
collars fitted on two snow leopards in Dolpa (rep
30/11/2019)
Lumbini
hosts sarus crane festival to raise awareness on the
endangered bird: According to conservationists, the
number of the threatened species has been decreasing
in the country in recent years, by Manoj Paudel
(kp 29/11/2019)
Activists
step up drive against Gadhimai mass animal sacrifice
(rep 24/11/2019)
Rautahat
residents criticise inhumane animal transportation:
Chickens to be sold to butchers in various parts of
the district make their journey hanging upside down,
with their feet tied together, by Shiva Puri (kp
23/11/2019)
17
puppies rescued from Swoyambhu area (ht
22/11/2019)
Destruction
of biodiversity corridor for Nijgadh airport could be
disastrous for wild elephants: The migratory pathway
of the wild elephants is part of the forests that is
set to be striped for the proposed Nijgadh
International Airport, by Shankar Acharya (kp
20/11/2019)
National
rhino census set to start from mid-March: This is for
the first time the government is spending its own fund
to count the rhino population, by Chandan Kumar
Mandal (kp 19/11/2019)
Residents
of a local unit in Tanahun relieved after a third
leopard was ensnared: Six children have been mauled to
death while seven others have been injured by killer
cats in the past year and a half, by Samjhana
Rasaili (kp 14/11/2019)
Wildlife
parts smuggling continues despite strict laws: Around
20 suspected wildlife poachers and smugglers have been
booked since the start of the new fiscal year, by
Shuvam Dhungana (kp 13/11/2019)
School
students actively involved in the conservation of owls
in Khotang: Nepal Owl Festival organised in Jalapa has
had a good impact on children and locals over the
importance of owls, by Dambar Singh Rai (kp
12/11/2019)
Tiger
attack claims woman (ht 11/11/2019)
Five
killed in tiger attacks in 7 months (ht
08/11/2019)
Tanahu
folk hold puja to prevent leopard attacks: Locals
believe they are on the receiving end of the
almighty’s wrath, by Samjhana Rasaili (kp
06/11/2019)
Tiger
attack kills one (t 06/11/2019)
In
Jhapa, uncle-cousin duo gets electrocuted, falling
into fences set up against tuskers: The district has
seen 39 deaths from similar incidents in the past nine
years, by Parbat Portel (kp 03/11/2019)
Migratory
birds start flying into Rara as cold sets in:
Different species of ducks, especially Siberian ones,
visit Rara every winter, conservationists say, by
Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp 02/11/2019)
Four
rhinos already found dead at CNP in this fiscal year
(ht 01/11/2019)
Saving
Nepal’s last wild dogs: Habitat destruction and
poisoning threaten Nepal’s wild dog population, by
Yadav Ghimirey (nt 01/11/2019)
Six
children killed in leopard attacks in Bhanu
Municipality in the last year and a half: To subdue
locals’ fear, a special security squad has been
searching the forests to capture the man-eating
leopards, by Samjhana Rasaili (kp 31/10/2019)
Let
sleeping animals sleep: Operating nighttime safaris in
Chitwan National Park in a bid to increase tourist
numbers is an absurd idea, by Anuj Ghimire (kp
28/10/2019)
Monkey
menace in Nepalgunj (ht 23/10/2019)
Pangolin
conservation runs effectively in Makwanpur’s buffer
zone community forests: As part of conservation
efforts, for the past three years, a community-based
unit has been raising awareness about the importance
of conserving pangolins in coordination with the
Zoological Society of London, by Shankar Acharya
(kp 21/10/2019)
Conservationists
term nighttime jeep safari in Chitwan National Park a
wild and absurd idea: Local tourism entrepreneurs are
planning to operate nighttime safari along the 34-km
Sauraha-Lothar section, by Chandan Kumar Mandal
(kp 20/10/2019), Let
the wild animals live in peace: Nighttime safari in
Chitwan National Park is a terrible idea and it must
be corrected immediately (kp 21/10/2019)
People
residing in wildlife-affected areas to be insured in
Tanahun: The insurance will also cover the loss of
property and crops, by Samjhana Rasaili (kp
20/10/2019)
After
local’s protest, Koshi Tappu’s elehants shifted to
Bhagalpur: 17 people of Kushaha and Jutwan were killed
in elephant attacks in the last two years, by
Pradeep Menyangbo (kp 19/10/2019)
Parsa
National Park to conduct a census of Gaur, by
Shankar Acharya (kp 18/10/2019)
Govt
told to ensure protection of stray cattle (ht
16/10/2019) [?? Long live the
holy cow, but stray dogs can be brutally killed, not
to talk about the terrible slaughter at Gadhimai!]
Canopy
bridges installed to prevent deaths of Banke wildlife
on highways: Speeding and reckless driving through
sanctuaries continue to kill protected animals, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 14/10/2019)
Experts
to conduct census of the Demoiselle cranes: As part of
their migration pattern, the cranes have entered India
from Mustang-Bheri River route, ornithologists say,
by Harihar Singh Rathour (kp 12/10/2019)
Wild
tuskers claim 39 lives in 10 years (ht 05/10/2019)
Ajayameru
residents construct a fence to protect crops from wild
boars: Hundreds of hectares of fertile land have been
left barren due to wild animals menace, by D.R.
Panta (kp 02/10/2019)
Feathered
friends becoming fewer: Nepal's bird population is
declining at an alarming rate due to man-made causes,
by Anuj Ghimire (kp 27/09/2019)
Save
the red panda before it is too late: The lovable
Himalayan mammal is being cornered from all sides due
to habitat loss, by Chandramani Aryal (kp
24/09/2019)
Tanahun’s
Bhanu Municipality sets up traditional snares to curb
leopard terror: By using the method, locals hope to
capture leopards by luring them into cages by placing
either a dog or a goat as bait inside wooden enclosure,
by Pratap Rana Magar (kp 20/09/2019)
The
cow may be Nepal’s national animal but few treat it as
such: There are thousands of stray cows in Nepal,
primarily because it is illegal to kill them and there
are no government mechanisms for their care, by
Srizu Bajracharya (kp 20/0/2019)
Sarus
cranes spotted in Kailali after seven years: The bird,
enlisted on IUCN’s red list of threatened species,
started to disappear in the area due to heavy
encroachment of wetland areas, its major habitat,
by Ganesh Chaudhary (kp 18/09/2019)
Five
sentenced to jail for smuggling chimpanzees (ht
18/09/2019)
A
village in Baitadi district terrorised by leopard
attacks: A minor was mauled to death in yet another
leopard attack earlier this month, by Tripti Shahi
(kp 17/09/2019)
City
office installs microchips on 500 domestic cattle to
stop abandonment: Each chip, the size of a rice grain,
contains a unique identification number that can
identify the animal and its owner, by Anup Ojha
(kp 16/09/2019)
After
unprecedented rhino deaths last year, government to
improve and increase grassland: Food competition,
habitat fragmentation, drying up of wetlands and water
resources and decrease in grassland led a sudden rise
in rhino deaths, study shows, by Chandan Kumar
Mandal (kp 09/09/2019)
Flies,
mosquitoes seen in Lo Manthang for the 'first time',
by Dhana Basnet (rep 09/09/2019)
Locals
start drive to conserve endangered Asian woolly neck
in Dhading: Number of Woolly Neck has decreased due to
wetland degradation, reduction of nesting trees, use
of pesticides and excessive hunting, conservationists
say, by Harihar Singh Rathour (kp 07/09/2019)
Nepal
to conduct Rhino census in March 2020 (rep
03/09/2019), Rhino
census likely from mid-February till mid-May (ht
05/09/2019)
Animal
rights activists protest Diktel authorities’ brutal
act against dogs: A video has gone viral that shows
two men pummeling a dog to death, while a tractor
carries scores of canines—some dead and others
semi-conscious, by Dambar Singh Rai (kp
02/09/2019), Complaint
filed against three people—including mayor—for killing
dogs in Diktel: The Nepal Veterinary Association and
animal rights activists filed the complaint at the
Khotang District Police Office on Tuesday, by
Dambar Singh Rai and Pawan Pandey (kp 04/09/2019)
Farmers
complain of monkey terror, by Bharat Koirala (ht
29/08/2019)
With
criticism growing, fewer tourists are riding elephants
in Chitwan: While tourism entrepreneurs say that their
elephants are treated humanely, wildlife
conservationists believe that the model of elephant
tourism needs to change, by Ramesh Kumar Poudel
(kp 26/08/2019)
Rising
death rate of sarus crane, world’s tallest flying
bird, raises concerns: Live electricity wires and
stray dogs are major threats for sarus cranes, by
Manoj Paudel (kp 26/08/2019)
Army
opens fire to drive elephants away in Parsa: The herd
tried to turn over a loaded truck that was heading
towards Pathalaiya from Hetauda, by Shankar
Acharya (kp 22/08/2019)
Human-wildlife
conflict ‘increasing’ in Koshi Tappu, by Amar
Khadka (rep 22/08/2019)
Nepal’s
prime minister has had it with the world using the
word rhino: KP Sharma Oli wants the world to refer to
rhino as gaida. But can the world even pronounce it?,
by Timothy Aryal (kp 21/08/2019)
More
people dying in wildlife attacks (ht 19/08/2019)
Turtle
conservation: Due attention awaited, by
Chandramani Aryal (ht 19/08/2019)
Wild
elephants wreak havoc in Sarlahi again: The jumbos
started terrorising the locals after a break in tusker
menace for the past two months, by Om Prakash
Thakur (kp 18/08/2019)
Bardiya
National Park takes aid of mobile app for rhino
conservation: Park officials adopted the new
technology as the satellite-GPS collar went kaput,
by Thakur Singh Tharu (kp 18/08/2019)
Give
elephants more room: Human-elephant conflict can be
avoided by employing corridors to connect one
protected area to another (kp 16/08/2019)
Elephants
are still dying at an alarming rate in Nepal: There is
no elephant poaching but nearly two percent of the
country’s elephants die every year, largely due to
conflicts with humans, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
13/08/2019), Reducing
the elephant-human conflict: There is a need to
re-visit the conservation strategy for Asian wild
elephants of Nepal, by Chandramani Aryal (kp
13/08/2019)
Mysterious
deaths of cattle send wildlife officials scrambling
for answers: Last week, 44 cattle died in Sunsari
which conservationists and veterinarians say could
pose immediate danger to park animals and local
residents, by Pradeep Menyangbo (kp 12/08/2019), Anthrax
bacteria in Koshi Tappu threatens protected species,
by Santosh Kafle (ht 13/08/2019)
Shuklaphanta
National Park constructs wall to prevent human-animal
conflicts: Wild animals from the national park
frequently enter human settlements in the park buffer
zone and destroy crops, even taking lives, by
Bhawani Bhatta (kp 11/08/2019)
Wildlife
deaths by road accidents on the rise in Parsa National
Park: Crossing the roads for wild animals becomes
dangerous during winter when the visibility is poor,
by Shankar Acharya (kp 09/08/2019)
Keep
an eye on gharials, or they will disappear: Nepal is
one of the last remaining countries with a gharial
population, interview with Phoebe Griffith by
Thomas Heaton (kp 06/08/2019)
Insects
are nature’s little helpers: By combining local
knowledge and practices with science, we can improve
pest management and aid conservation efforts, by
Prayan Pokharel (kp 06/08/2019)
Tikapur
dolphins attract tourists, by Yogesh Rawal (rep
06/08/2019)
Marked
rise in wildlife deaths in road accidents, by
Keshav Rana (rep 06/08/2019)
Parsa
sanctuary's tiger population increases fourfold in a
decade: Eighteen adult tigers were counted in the park
during an inspection, park officials say, by
Shankar Acharya (kp 05/08/2019)
Rs
50 lakh to curb monkey menace (ht 05/08/2019)
Unprecedented
rhino deaths in Chitwan National Park raise alarm: 46
rhinos died last year, the highest ever mortality rate
due to natural causes in a year, by Chandan Kumar
Mandal (kp 04/08/2019)
Leopards
terrorise Tanahun locals (ht 03/08/2019)
This
is where Kathmandu’s dead dogs go: Dead animals, both
pets and stray, are buried by one organisation in pits
on public land, but no one is sure whether it is
legal—or even safe, by Srtizu Bajracharya (kp
01/08/2019)
When
it comes to tiger population, the figures must be
treated with caution: An increase in tiger count is
implausible when a report reveals their natural
habitat is declining, by Chandramani Aryal (kp
01/08/2019)
Challenges
to protect endangered Gharials in Chitwan: Nine
gharials died after getting trapped in fishing nets in
the last fiscal year, conservationists say, by
Pramita Dhakal (kp 31/07/2019)
Conservationists
elated with thriving population of critically
endangered White-rumped vulture: More than 300 nests
of various vulture species—at least 75 of White-rumped
kind—were found in Province 5 in the last fiscal year,
by Manoj Paudel (kp 30/07/2019)
CNP
in crisis as Nepal eyes record on tiger population,
by Sabita Shrestha and Nirmal Ghimire (rep 30/07/2019),
Nepal
poised to become first country to double tiger
population, by Priti Adhikari and Sabita Malla
(rep 30/07/2019), Tiger
tiger, rising high (rep 30/07/2019)
Environment
stress on tigers: Climate-smart management needed,
by Dipesh Joshi (ht 29/07/2019)
Stray
cattle: Used, abandoned and despised, by Yogesh
Rawal (rep 29/07/2019)
Wild
elephant installed with radio collar, by Tanka
Chhetri (rep 29/07/2019)
Hospital
resembles dumping site (rep 29/07/2019)
'Forest
Guardian' for endangered red panda conservation,
by DB Budha (rep 28/07/2019)
Park
elephants run amok in human settlements: Elephants
have already destroyed more than two dozen houses in
Sarlahi’s Lalbandi area, Parsa National Park officials
say, by Shankar Acharya (kp 26/07/2019)
Counting
of musk deer starts in Kanchenjunga: The animal is
hunted for its musk, a powdery substance found in male
musk deer, by Ananda Gautam (kp 25/07/2019)
‘Ronaldo,’
the elephant, wreaking havoc in Chitwan, by Sabita
Shrestha (rep 24/07/2019)
Human-leopard
conflict: Ecological reasons to blame, by
Chandramani Aryal (ht 23/07/2019)
Wild
animals killed 12 persons in Chitwan this fiscal year
(rep 17/07/2019)
Chitwan
National Park builds and restores ponds for rhinosPark
officials believe the move will limit the number of
fights among the rhinos, by Ramesh Kumar Poudel
(kp 16/07/2019)
Gangetic
river dolphins start to arrive in Kailali rivers:
Dolphins enter the tributaries of Karnali and Ganga
rivers to be safe from floodwaters, conservationists
say, by Mohan Budhaair (kp 14/07/2019)
Road
accidents claimed 121 wild animals in 2017-2018
(ht 14/07/2019)
Wild
animal attack victims deprived of compensation, by
Bhawani Bhatta (kp 10/07/2019)
Fall
of the wild: The protection of Nepal’s wild animals is
intertwined with the country’s tourism
aspirations (kp 10/07/2019)
Elephants
aren’t migrating because of construction work,
wildlife officials say‘: If the elephants do not use
their usual route, it could significantly reduce
their population’, by Shankar Acharya (kp
09/07/2019)
Dolphins
spotted in Mohana and Pathraiya rivers, by Yogesh
Rawal (rep 08/07/2019)
Five
red pandas spoted in Langtang National Park: Officials
say it was the first ever sightings of these elusive
creatures in multiple numbers within the same
area, by Balaram Ghimire (kp 05/07/2019)
Monkeys
terrorising Dolakha farmers (ht 05/07/2019)
Saving
the last of Nepal’s pangolins: Law enforcement and
education, the only way to stop trafficking of
endangered animals, by Sonia Awale (nt 05/07/2019)
Is
wildlife conservation a victim of its own success in
Nepal?, by Mukesh Pokhrel (nt 05/07/2019)
With
the start of monsoon, number of snakebite deaths
spike: Poor infrastructure, lack of trained manpower
and anti-snake venom blamed for increasing number of
snakebite fatalities, by Arjun Poudel (kp
26/06/2019)
Wild
elephants terrorise Sindhuli villagers, by Sujata
Lama (kp 24/06/2019)
One
rhino dies every eight days in Chitwan National Park,
by Ujjwal Satyal (ht 24/06/2019)
This
is why leopards are entering our cities: Rapid
urbanisation and a lack of prey are pushing leopards
towards the cities—and humans, by Marissa Taylor
(kp 22/06/2019)
Number
of gharial hatchlings increase in CNP breeding centre,
by Pramita Dhakal (kp 20/06/2019)
Northern
Mahottari under threat of elephants: Two dozen houses
in Rajbas have been destroyed in wild elephant
attacks, by Sunita Baral (kp 17/06/2019)
Call
of the wild: Every human being has a responsibility
toward nature as we exist only due to the gifts that
nature has bestowed on us, by Prawesh Gautam (rep
16/06/2019)
Ongoing
development projects obstruct free movement of
wildlife, by Shankar Acharya (kp 09/06/2019)
Man-eater
leopard mauls girl to death ( (rep 09/06/2019)
Shuklaphanta
National Park sees decline in swamp deer population,
by Bhawani Bhatta (kp 08/06/2019)
Photos
of snow leopard in Gaurishankar released on World
Environment Day, by Rajendra Manandhar (kp
06/06/2019)
Conservation
centre built in Arjundhara to save turtles: The
sanctuary has over time become a learning hub
for students, by Arjun Rajbanshi (kp 05/06/2019)
Elephant
menace unabated in Saptari district, by Abdhesh
Kumar Jha (kp 04/06/2019)
Jagadishpur
Lake drained out, putting wildlife in grave danger: An
irrigation office decided to drain the lake to repair
a connecting irrigation canal—leaving the wildlife in
the area to fight for their survival, by Manoj
Paudel (kp 02/06/2019)
Construction
of National Zoological Garden in Suryabinayak in limbo
(ht 31/05/2019)
Meant
for each otter: Conservation is focused on iconic
species while this aquatic mammal faces extinction,
by Chandramani Aryal (kp 30/05/2019)
Elderly
dies of snakebite in Udayapur: Snakebite cases rising
every year, by Maheshwor Chamling Rai (rep
26/05/2019)
Wild
tuskers terrorise locals, nine families displaced
(ht 24/05/2019)
New
machine introduced to curb monkey menace in Syangja
(ht 23/05/2019)
36
rhino poachers and wildlife parts smugglers on pardon
list: Rhino poaching is no longer a ‘non-pardonable
offence’ as per the new Criminal and Civil Code,
by Ramesh Kumar Poudel (kp 20/05/2019)
Electric
fencing at KTWR to ensure safety of people living in
buffer zone, by Amar Khadka (rep 20/05/2019)
Wildlife
killings go unchecked, by Shiva Puri (kp
20/05/2019)
Elderly
woman dies in wild elephant attackin Siraha (kp
19/05/2019)
Between
existence and extinction in Nepal: The coming mass
extinction will seriously affect the biodiversity of
the Himalaya, by Sonia Awale (nt 17/05/2019)
Prey
density declines across tiger bearing parks and
forests: Authorities have begun a separate study to
find out the status of prey animals and to frame
required interventions to boost their population as
part of tiger conservation efforts, by Chandan
Kumar Mandal (kp 10/05/2019)
Human
beings and wildlife: It is important for human beings
to act as ecological partners rather than egoistic
leaders, by Sushan Dhakal (kp 09/05/2019)
Three
groups caught with wildlife parts in Kathmandu so far
this month, by Nayak Paudel (kp 08/05/2019)
Seven
people injured in a wild boar attack (kp
07/05/2019)
Two
wildlife parts trafficking groups arrested in as many
days, by Nayak Paudel (kp 03/05/2019)
Shamans
join campaign for protection of red panda, by DB
Budha (rep 03/05/2019)
‘Tusker
habitat in Asia to shrink by 41.8pc’ (ht
03/05/2019)
Simian
terror forces locals to leave village (ht
02/05/2019)
Counting
of
tiger prey species begins in Chitwan, Parsa: Ten
teams—six in Chitwan National Park and four in Parsa
National Park—deployed for the purpose, by Pramita
Dhakal (kp 30/04/2019)
Mahottari
district sees rise in human-wildlife conflict and
poaching, by Rabindra Uprety (kp 29/04/2019)
Two
endemic orchid species discovered, by Ujjwal
Satyal (ht 29/04/2019)
Some
migratory birds making Ghodaghodi lake their
‘permanent home’, by Yogesh Rawal (ht 28/04/2019)
Apex
court issues order to protect stray animals (ht
23/04/2019)
Government
comes
upwith ‘wildlife friendly’ road design to avert road
kill: An estimated 40 percent of total wildlife deaths
is attributed to road accidents along the
East-West Highway, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
21/04/2019)
Establishment
of wildlife research center going nowhere since 3
years, by Khagendra Adhikari (rep 20/04/2019)
Surreal
landscapes
and abundant wildlife await visitors at Shuklaphanta
National Park: Tucked away in the south-western corner
of Nepal, the park is famed for its deer, tigers,
rhinos and other exotic species, by Bhawani Bhatta
(kp 19/04/2019)
No
more tusker menace in Jhapa (ht 19/04/2019)
Livestock
from Dhading have painful journeys to capital's
slaughterhouses, by Sarita Shrestha (rep
19/04/2019)
Swamp
deer, blue bull count begins in Shuklaphanta park,
by Bhawani Bhatta (kp 17/04/2019)
Udayapur
locals scared of threat from simians (ht
16/04/2019)
Dogs
threaten
deer population of Institute of Forestry woods:
Authorities plan to fence the institute’s property to
keep stray canines at bay, by Pratap Bista (kp
15/04/2019)
Bhanubhakta
Wildlife Park to be established (ht 14/04/2019)
Rare
black-necked stork pair hatches a chick after 12 years,
by Manoj Paudel (kp 14/04/2019)
Hydropower
and
irrigation dams are threat to freshwater fish species:
Study; Experts call for immediate actions to stop
degradation of aquatic resources, by Chandan Kumar
Mandal (kp 12/04/2019), ADB
suggests measures to protect river fish in Nepal
(ht 13/04/2019)
Pangolin
scales widely traded illegally in Dolakha, by
Ramesh Khatiwada (ht 12/04/2019)
Kingpin
of a tiger poaching gang arrested: The notorious gang
has been operating in both Nepal and India, by
Nayak Paudel (kp 10/04/2019)
Wild
animals damage crops leaving farmers upset, by
Arjun Oli (rep 06/04/2019)
In
conservation,
Nepal is not out of the woods yet: With poaching under
control, the big new threat to Nepal’s nature is from
infrastructure, by Sonia Awale (nt 05/04/2019), Protecting
the
last home of the Spiny Babbler: The habitat of this
unique to Nepal bird and other rare species is
threatened by a new road, by Carol Inskipp and
Rupendra Karmacharya (nt 05/04/2019)
Wild
animals wreak havoc in Dhanusha, by Shyam Sundar
Shashi (kp 04/04/2019)
Revisiting
the wildlife farming policy: The new proposed policy
enactment could facilitate wildlife trade business,
by Biraj Shrestha (kp 02/04/2019)
New
species of reptile found in Nepal (rep
27/03/2019)
41
rhinos dead in nine months at Chitwan National Park,
by Sabita Shrestha (rep 25/03/2019)
City
plans to keep record of domestic animals by installing
chips on them, by Anup Ojha (kp 24/03/2019)
Butchering
buffaloes is inhumane and unhygienic. But government
can’t do anything about it, by Thomas Heaton and
Deepak Gautam (kp 16/03/2019)
Bajhang
sees increase in cases of poaching, by Basanta
Pratap Singh (kp 10/03/2019)
Shock,
anger
and calls for probe after reports on World Wide Fund
for Nature: Lawmakers in the US and the UK ask for an
investigation into the global charity, while the
response in Nepal has been lukewarm, by Tsering D
Gurung (kp 06/03/2019)
Pond
turned into a dumping site threatens wildlife, by
Shiva Puri (kp 06/03/2019)
Zero-sum
wild game: The human cost of conservation is heavy,
yet often overlooked (kp 05/03/2019)
Seven
rhino calves found dead in past six months in CNP,
by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp 02/03/2019)
32
rhinos die of natural causes (ht 28/02/2019)
Ilam
sets up red panda breeding centre, by Biplaw
Bhattarai (kp 27/02/2019)
Conservationists
join
forces with business leaders to raise wildlife
awareness: Experts say conservation and economy go hand
in hand, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp 26/02/2019)
Over
100 chauris die in avalanches, by Bishnulal Budha
(kp 26/02/2019)
Farmers
adopt new method to tackle monkey terror in Bhojpur
(ht 26/02/2019)
Wild
elephants wreak havoc in Sarlahi district, by Om
Prakash Thakur (kp 25/02/2019)
Saptari
elephant attack victim fighting for life (ht
23/02/2019)
Khorsor
Elephant Breeding Centre welcomes its new memberWith the
latest addition, the facility has 48 elephant calves,
by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp 22/02/2019)
Blackbuck
population declines due to leopard, hyena predation,
by Kamal Panthi (kp 22/02/2019)
Drive
to catch monkeys launched in Khotang (ht
21/02/2019), 56
monkeys trapped in four days (rep 25/02/2019)
Protect
our wildlife (rep 21/02/2019)
Pangolin:
The most trafficked mammal, by Nishan KC (ht
20/02/2019)
Parents
mull goat sacrifice as children keep fainting at school,
by Dinesh Subedi (rep 20/02/2019)
24
gharials from CNP breeding centre released into Rapti
River (ht 16/02/2019)
Red
panda numbers on rise in Karnali, by LP Devkota and
Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp 15/02/2019), Red
panda conservation becoming challenging, by DB Budha
(rep 15/02/2019)
Wild
elephant menace hits Siraha (kp 14/02/2019)
Five
injured in leopard attack (kp 14/02/2019)
Two
animal passes to be constructed along Kathmandu-Tarai
fast track, by Shankar Acharya and Pawan Yadav (kp
13/02/2019), Roads
in the middle of forest threatening safety of wild
animals, by Rohit Rai (rep 13/02/2019)
SC
directive to end inhumane transport of livestock (ht
12/02/2019)
Chitwan
National Park releases gharials into river (ht
12/02/2019)
Male
leopard found dead in Bhanu (rep 12/02/2019)
Citizen
science project aims for urban resiliency along Danda
River, by Ram Saran Tamang (rep 10/02/2019)
Security
beefed up in Bajura to control wildlife poaching (ht
09/02/2019)
Baby
rhino found dead, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp
05/02/2019), One-horned
rhino deaths rise (ht 05/02/2019)
Rail
project hinders movement of elephants, by Shankar
Acharya (kp 04/02/2019)
Fishing
nets a major threat for gharial conservation: Six
gharials were found trapped in a month, of which three
have died, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp 04/02/2019)
Hydel
projects result in the extinction of aquatic animals
(rep 02/02/2019)
Wildlife
at risk after snowfall in Khaptad, by Basanta Pratap
Singh (kp 28/01/2019)
Calls
to protect king cobra in Myagdi (kp 28/01/2019)
Wild
beasts hassling Koshi Tappu folks, govt apathetic
(ht 24/02/2019), Koshi
Tappu Wild Life Reserve installs electric fence (ht
25/01/2019)
Rising
rhino deaths put conservationists on the horns of a
dilemma, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 20/01/2019)
Five-year
red panda conservation action plan developed (ht
20/01/2019)
Human-leopard
conflict: Leopards kill 23 people in six years, dozens
of leopards trapped to death, by Bira Gadal (rep
12/01/2019)
Conservationists
begin research on musk deer, by Hariram Uprety (kp
10/01/2019)
Parks
dart wild elephant and instal radio collar, by
Shankar Acharya (kp 06/01/2019)
Farmers
urge authorities to control animal menace, by Menuka
Dhungana (kp 06/01/2019)
Chitwan
Park rhino delivers baby in human settlement, by
Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp 05/01/2019)
It’s
a jungle out here: In an increasingly concrete jungle,
pockets of greenery become more and more vital in
maintaining the avian diversity of Kathmandu, by
Priya Joshi (kp 05/01/2019)
Man
held with rhino horn in Dhangadhi: Sudurpaschim
districts becoming smuggling route to move animal parts,
by Mohan Budhair (kp 03/01/2019)
Tiger
preying on cattle shifted to central zoo (ht
03/01/2019)
21
rhinos dead in less than six months (kp 01/01/2019)
Wild
tusker tramples septuagenarian to death, by
Maheshwar Chamling Rai (rep 01/01/2019)
Government
to study snow leopard movement: Wildlife department to
collar 12 rare mountain cats, by Chandan Kumar
Mandal (kp 31/12/2018)
Elephant
menace hits Saptari, by Abdhesh Kumar Jha (kp
29/12/2018)
BNP
to allocate area for protecting gharial crocodiles,
by Arjun Oli (rep 29/12/2018)
‘Biodiversity
loss a threat to human existence’, by Chandan Kumar
Mandal (kp 27/12/2018)
Call
of the wild: Tiger populations have seen a hopeful rise
in Nepal, by Tsewang Nuru Sherpa (kp 23/12/2018)
Operation
Major Hunt starts in CNP (rep 22/12/2018)
Koshi
Tappu witnesses further decline in the arrival of
migratory birds, by Amar Khadka (rep 18/12/2018)
DFO
installs foot-hold traps to catch man-eater leopard
(rep 18/12/2018)
Human-wildlife
conflict a big threat to conservation efforts in
Kanchenjunga Landscape (rep 15/12/2018), Human-wildlife
conflict threat to conservation efforts, say experts
(ht 16/12/2018)
Indian
security refuses to return Chitwan rhinos, by
Narayan Sharma (kp 14/12/2018), Park
officials rescue rhino from Susta: Indian authorities
had barred way for three animals swept by floods,
by Ramesh Kumar Paudel and Narayan Sharma (kp
17/12/2018)
Furious
locals set out to kill man-eater leopards, by
Shreehari Pokharel (rep 08/12/2018)
Doubling
wild
tigers: Nepal has made notable progress in saving
endangered wild cats from extinction and in nearly
doubling their number just in nine years, by Alka
Bhandari (rep 08/12/2018)
Project
Dragonfly:
A new species of dragonfly is found in Nepal, but its
existence is threatened by the destruction of aquatic
habitats, by Sonia Awale (nt 07/12/2018)
Camera
traps installed to monitor animals’ movement, by
Shankar Acharya (kp 06/12/2018)
Elephants
terrorise Hirapur residents, by Om Prakash Thakur
(kp 06/12/2018)
Boy
dies in leopard attack (kp 03/12/2018), Locals
terrorized as leopard kills two children in 17 days
(rep 03/12/2018)
Madi
protesters urge safety from wild animals, by
Ramesh Kumar Paudel and Shankar Acharya (kp 02/12/2018)
Migratory
birds attract tourists and students, by Bhawani
Bhatta (kp 02/12/2018)
Indian
man gets 7-year jail for rhino poaching, by Ramesh
Kumar Paudel (kp 30/11/2018)
It’s
a jungle out there: The number of tigers in Nepal will
soon double, but what will they eat?, by Kunda
Dixit (nt 30/11/2018)
Two
women killed in tusker attack, by Ramesh Kumar
Paudel (kp 29/11/2018)
Rhino
sightings common around Bharatpur, by Sabita
Shrestha (rep 29/11/2018)
Lord
Buddha’s bird under threat in his birthplace:
Officials plan to declare Sarus Crane as ‘Bird of
Lumbini’, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 26/11/2018)
Belaka
starts driveto conserve rare vulture species, by
Dilliram Khatiwada (kp 25/11/2018)
Three
rare bird species seen in Ludi Damgadhe (kp
21/11/2018)
No monkeying around: Proper planning is required to
mitigate conflict between wild animals and people,
by Min Raj Dhakal (kp 19/11/2018)
Leopard
attack victim’s kin to get support (kp 18/11/2018)
Seven-year-old
injured in leopard attack (ht 18/11/2018)
Central
Zoo
looks to a sanctuary modelRising concerns for animal
welfare and the sorry state of the zoo provoke a moral
dilemma — Do we need institutions whose foundations
are built on the deprivation of animals’ liberty?,
by Marissa Taylor (kp 17/11/2018)
WWF
sites have room for more tigers: Experts; Significant
and sustained conservation efforts could boost global
tiger population, by Arpan Shrestha (kp
15/11/2018)
Rhino
injures three residentsof Devchuli, by Narayan
Sharma (kp 11/11/2018)
Leopard
attacks on children increase in Arghakhanchi, by
Birendra KC (kp 08/11/2018)
Animals
cause 116 road accidents in 3 years, by Nayak
Paudel (kp 08/11/2018)
Drive
to destroy mosquito larvae starts in Pokhara, by
Lal Prasad Sharma (kp 07/11/2018)
Shuklaphanta
park deer fail to pull hordes of visitors (kp
04/11/2018)
Wild
elephants destroy paddy in Ichchhanagar, by
Shankar Acharya (kp 02/11/2018)
217
monkeys caged for destroying farmers’ crops, by
Chabilal Tiwari (rep 02/11/2018)
Hope
raised
for recovery of tiger population: Nepal success
attributed to its strategy of enlisting community
groups to protect the big cat (ht 31/10/2018)
Winter
migratory birds start arriving in Nepal (ht
27/10/2018)
Seven
rhinos die of natural causes in three months (ht
26/10/2018)
Animal
sacrifice continues unabated in Sudurpaschim (rep
25/10/2018)
Park
starts maiden study on carrying capacity of tigers
(kp 23/10/2018)
The
sacrifice of animal sacrifices: Appeasing the gods
through blood-letting may slowly go out of fashion,
by Aashish Mishra (nt 12/10/2018)
A
remarkable feat: Nepal has set an extraordinary
example by achieving five years of Zero Poaching of
rhinos between 2011 and 2018, by Kanchan Thapa (kp
11/10/2018)
A
call for the wildlife: We need global commitment and
coordinated actions to save the iconic endangered
species from extinction, in ways that are also fair
across countries, by Kumar Paudel (rep 10/10/2018)
Social
groups campaign against animal sacrifice (kp
09/10/2018)
Park
team arrests rhino poacher, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel
(kp 08/10/2018)
Bengal
tigers streak in parks, but protection ‘is a
challenge': Nepal has almost doubled its tiger
population in the last decade. The latest tiger census
report, released last month, shows the number has
reached 235. Officials had recorded 121 tigers in 2009
(kp 06/10/2018)
Tiger
found dead in Bardiya park (kp 05/10/2018)
Cheers
as Nepal’s tiger population doubles, by Chandan
Kumar Mandal (kp 24/09/2018), CNP
reports decline in tiger population in 22 years,
by Tilak Rimal (ht 24/09/2018)
Assessing
tiger
population: Monitoring tiger populations at regular
intervals is vital to assess ecological health
of a protected area as well as results of conservation
effort, by Kanchan Thapa (rep 24/09/2018)
Saving
the world: Many global problems could be curtailed if
people adopted vegan lifestyles, by Ramesh Ghimire
(kp 23/09/2018)
Tiger,
tiger,
burning bright: Forensic data analysis is shedding new
light on tiger specimens confiscated from poachers,
aiding conservation efforts in crisis areas, by
Adarsh Man Serchan (kp 22/09/2018)
Parsa
tusker kills woman (kp 18/09/2018)
Two
injured in leopard attack in Kathmandu, by
Deepanjali Khadka (rep 12/09/2018)
Snake
bite deaths high in Jhapa, by Arjun Rajbanshi (kp
11/09/2018)
Endangered
dolphins face risk of extinction, by Yogesh Rawal
(rep 07/09/2018)
Snakebite
patients up in Tarai region (ht 04/09/2018)
Wild
elephant terror in Jhapa, by Yubraj Bibash (brep
03/09/2018)
Park
officials capture killer tiger in Chitwan (kp
01/09/2018)
Saving
Vultures From Extinction, by Krishna Prasad Bhusal
(rn 01/09/2018), Vulture
population declining despite conservation efforts,
by Mukti Prasad Neupane (rep 02/09/2018)
Rhino
deaths alarming, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
31/08/2018)
Supreme
Court Interim order to stop animal cruelty (kp
27/08/2018)
Snakebite
cases on the rise in Itahari, by Amar Khadka (rep
26/08/2018)
Chitwan
Park welcomes second water buffalo calf (kp
25/08/2018)
Jackals
terrorise Bajura locals (ht 25/08/2018)
Arna
born in Chitwan for first time in 70 yrs (kp
17/08/2018)
Highways
threatening BNP animals: 72 wild animals killed by
vehicles in the fiscal year 2017/18, by Keshav
Rana (rep 17/08/2018)
Of
planes and pachyderms: The proposed Nijgadh Airport
infuriated development activists and environmental
activists, by Chandra Mani Aryal (kp 15/08/2018)
How
many tigers in Nepal? Could wild tiger conservation
become a victim of its own success?, by Kunda
Dixit (nt 10/08/2018)
Clouded
future for the Clouded Leopard: Nepal’s most elusive
wild cat also needs to be saved , by Yadav
Ghimirey (nt 10/08/2018)
Chitwan
tiger mauls woman to death (kp 07/08/2018)
Settlements
push into forests: 11 straying leopards killed in 5
yrs (kp 06/08/2018)
Rhino
deaths due to natural causes on the rise (ht
06/08/2018)
Rhino
diplomacy: Gifting wildlife specimens may boost
international ties, but activists have concerns,
by Umesh Pokharel (kp 03/08/2018)
Human-wildlife
conflict: Buffer zone farm owners denied compensation,
by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp 02/08/2018)
News
from the jungle: Tiger conservation cannot be achieved
by hiding the results of the tiger survey, by
Chandramani Aryal (kp 01/08/2018)
Kamalamai
locals under tusker terror for past seven months,
by Anil Bhandari (rep 312/07/2018)
Conservation
efforts boost dolphin population, by Yogesh Rawal
(rep 30/07/2018)
Tiger
conservation gets tougher (rep 29/07/2018), Event
marked amid number fears: Delayed tiger count report
blamed on suspected fall in wild cat population at
Chitwan park (kp 30/07/2018), Government
fails to make public wild cat population (ht
30/07/2018), Counting
the stripes: The tiger survey is a serious issue and
the report must be published by September (kp
31/07/2018)
Tigers
terrorize Parsa settlement yet again, by Ritesh
Tripathi (rep 27/07/2018)
Tiger
terror continues in villages of Sankhuwasabha (rep
25/07/2018)
10
people died in wild animal attacks last fiscal: RFD
report, by Pratap Bista (kp 22/07/2018)
Gifted
rhino pair set out for China from Chitwan, by
Ramesh K. Poudel and Anup Ojha (kp 11/07/2018)
Kailali
rivers welcome migratory Dolphins, by Mohan
Budhair (kp 11/07/2018)
It’s
not enough: Wildlife survey in national parks are
welcome, but that alone will not suffice, by
Tsewang Nuru Sherpa (kp 08/07/2018)
15-foot
long King Cobra seen in Gaurishankar area, by
Rajendra Manandhar (kp 07/07/2018)
4
people die of snakebites in Mahottari District, by
Santosh Singh and Aman Koirala (kp 03/07/2018)
KMC
to control open defecation by pets (ht 01/07/2018)
Conservationists
baffled after Bengal tigers are spotted in Dadeldhura,
by Panta (kp 23/06/2018)
Park
clamps curfew for red panda to deliver in peace,
by Balram Ghimire (kp 20/06/2018)
The
lopsided discourse: The hegemonic account of
conservation relies on unequal power relations, by
Shradha Ghale (kp 19/06/2018)
Villagers
unable to get rid of monkey menace (rep
19/06/2018)
Crying
wolf: Rather than a threat, the Himalayan Wolf may be
the saviour of a fragile ecosystem, by Ryan Davy
(nt 15/06/2018)
Wild
elephants kill villager in Rattanpuri (kp
14/06/2018)
Privately
owned elephants freed from shackles, by Sabita
Shrestha (rep 14/06/2018)
Three
wild elephants wreak havoc in Dhanusha villages
(12/06/2018)
Out
in the streets: Govt should employ proactive measures
to control population of stray dogs in the Valley
(kp 07/06/2018)
Red
Panda monitoring block in Jumla (rep 06/06/2018)
Save
the frogs: Dissecting frogs merely teaches the young
that it is okay to mistreat animals, by Biraj
Shrestha (kp 03/06/2018)
Nepal
and India to run joint operation to check wildlife
poaching, by Bhawani Bhatta (kp 22/05/2018)
Population
of wild buffaloes increases to 441 in Koshi Tappu,
by Amar Khadka (rep 21/05/2018)
Leopard
population declining: Reports (ht 19/05/2018)
Apex
court show cause over law on wildlife organs (kp
18/05/2018)
Police
hunt 90 rhino poachers (kp 15/05/2018)
Banke
National Park animals thirst for water as several
ponds go dry, by Thakur Singh Tharu (kp
10/05/2018)
Population
of critically endangered Gharial up in Babai River,
by Kamal Panthim (kp 10/05/2018)
People
spending sleepless nights in their houses damaged by
wild elephants, by Sabita Shrestha (rep
07/05/2018)
Census
of snow leopards begins in Dolpa, by Bishnu
Devkota (rep 03/05/2018)
Endangered
red pandas found in Tehrathum, by Chandra Karki
(kp 01/05/2018)
Wild
elephants claim three lives in two months, by
Jitendra Kumar Jha (rep 30/04/2018)
Wild
elephant kills woman in Saptari (kp 25/04/2018)
Bardiya
National Park fails to combat fire: Blaze raging for
past three weeks displaces wild animals, by Kamal
Panthi (kp 24/04/2018)
Fourth
tiger found dead in a month in Chitwan, by Ramesh
Kumar Paudel (kp 23/04/2018), Five
tigers die in 10 months at CNP, by Sabita Shrestha
(rep 23/04/2018)
Panel
to study mystery deaths of rhinos (kp 23/04/2018)
Tusker
destroys five houses in Chitwan (ht 23/04/2018)
Experts
identify
36 fish species in Karnali River: Environmental DNA
method of identifying fish debuts in Nepal, a first in
South Asia (kp 22/04/2018)
CNP
managing conflict in buffer zone effectively (ht
22/04/2018)
Parsa
park builds electric fence to stop tusker terror,
by Shankar Acharya (kp 20/04/2018)
CNP
takes fish off menu to increase gharial population,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 16/04/2018)
Tusker
kills
3 people in as many days: Conservationists say the
elephant might have been angered by the vehicles
passing through the forest, by Shankar Acharya (kp
16/04/2018), Dhurbe
spotted in Chitwan National Park, by Ramesh Kumar
Paudel (kp 16/04/2018)
Chitwan
Park boosts security of wildlife (kp 15/04/2018)
Tiger
sightseeing a big draw for Bardia Nat’l Park, by
Kamal Panthi (kp 15/04/2018)
Nat’l
parks and wildlife conservation act: Madi locals press
for amendment to Act, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp
15/04/2018)
Wildlife
hospital of Sauraha in final stage of construction,
by Sabita Shrestha (rep 12/04/2018)
The
tiger and the farmer: Marginalised, forest-dependent
people are paying a heavy price for wildlife
protection, by Shradha Ghale (kp 10/04/2018)
CNP
completes zero poaching year (ht 10/04/2018)
Arna
census in Koshi reserve starts on April 11, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 09/04/2018)
BNP
wildlife hit as Geruwa river changes course,
by Kamal Panthi (kp 09/04/2018)
No
end in sight to wildlife terror in buffer zone, by
Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp 06/04/2018)
Scarcity
of water increasing risk of human-wildlife conflict,
by Keshav Rana (kp 05/04/2018)
Six
translocated swamp deer die within a year, by
Bhawani Bhatta (kp 03/04/2018)
Shrinking
fish population leaves dolphins to struggle for
survival: Dolphins struggling for survival as fish
population shrinks, by Yogesh Rawal (rep
02/04/2018)
Tiger
census completed in Suklaphanta, by Rajendra
Bhatta (rep 01/04/2018)
Road
accidents claimed 133 wild animals last fiscal (ht
28/03/2018)
Tiger
kills woman, injures two others in Makawanpur (ht
27/03/2018)
Tiger
found dead in CNP (kp 25/03/2018)
Lung
disease rate declines in Tarai elephants (kp
25/03/2018)
Sparrows
disappear as humans thrive in urban milieu (kp
24/03/2018)
Locals
get involved to save park wildlife, by Ramesh
Kumar Paudel (kp 22/03/2018)
One
of Nepal’s last dancing bears dies after being
transferred to zoo (ht 22/03/2018)
Tiger,
gharial census in final stage, says DNPWC (ht
19/03/2018)
Monkey
menace in Ramechhap (ht 19/03/2018)
National
tiger census: Officials start data analysis;
Department to announce results next month, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 14/03/2018)
Pangolin
census begins in Hetauda (kp 11/03/2018)
Water
pollution a big threat to aquatic life in Tikapur,
by Yogesh Rawal (rep 11/03/2018)
Ghariyal
species of crocodile released into Rapti River (ht
09/03/2018)
Sighting
of male gharials offers park officials hope (kp
07/03/2018)
Police
arrest fugitive wildlife smuggler (kp 06/03/2018)
Wildlife
poaching, smuggling under check in Shuklaphanta,
by Bhawani Bhatta (kp 04/03/2018), Farmers
quiver
as tuskers wreck crops and property: There was reign
of terror when a herd of elephants entered the
settlement in Punarbas-9 around 10pm on Saturday
and wreaked havoc, by Bhawani Bhatta (kp
05/03/2018)
Monkeys
destroy crops in Dakaha (ht 04/03/2018)
One-third
conservation areas at risk of losing tigers, shows
study (ht 03/03/2018)
Court
jails 10 rhino poachers (kp 01/03/2018)
Global
community lauds Nepal's efforts in tiger conservation
(rep 01/03/2018)
BNP
team catches leopard that killed 40 blackbucks, by
Kamal Panthi (kp 25/02/2018)
Gharial
monitoring begins in Chitwan Park, by Chandan
Kumar Mandal (kp 25/02/2018), q
(ht 2o7/02/2018)
Elephant
menace continues in Jhapa, by Yubraj Biwas (rep
25/02/2018)
Rs
6.8million to go for red panda conservation (kp
22/02/2018)
Animal
welfare: We need to work more in Nepal, by Bishwo
Pokharel (ht 19/02/2018)
Rapti
River welcomes 25 Gharials (kp 18/02/2018)
Leopards
terrorizing villagers in southern Khotang (rep
18/02/2018)
Rare
Mongolian eagle rescued in Rautahat, sent to central
zoo (ht 17/02/2018)
Tuskers
kill 2, terror among locals (ht 17/02/2018)
Wild
elephants run amok in the East, by Chandan Kumar
Mandal (kp 16/02/2018)
Two
killed in tusker attack in Saptari (ht
14/02/2018), Wild
elephant kills two women in Saptari, by Jitendra
Kumar Jha (rep 14/02/2018)
Tiger
census begins in Shuklaphanta through camera trapping
(rep 13/02/2018)
Army
to launch 'Operation Mahahunt' to curb poaching,
by Himnath Devkota (rep 12/02/2018)
Tusker
menace:
Sleepless nights for Thori residents: The wild tuskers
have destroyed at least 17 houses in Thori-1 and 2
since mid-December, by Shankar Acharya (kp
11/02/2018)
How
humans can live with wild elephants: Conservationists
are testing early warning devices to reduce damage
from increasing conflict between people and wild
elephants in Nepal, by Sheren Shrestha and Gokarna
Jung Thapa (nt 09/01/2018)
Build
wildlife
hospital at Chitwan urges seminar: Wildlife experts
from Nepal, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, China,
Australia, America and Thailand participated in the
seminar (kp 08/02/2018)
Shuklaphanta
National Park starts tiger census, by
Bhawani Bhatta (kp 06/02/2018)
Dolakha
hosts national festival dedicated to conservation of
owls, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 04/02/2018)
More
valley denizens buying pedigree dogs, by Ayam
Shrestha (rep 31/01/2018)
Elephant
behind six deaths gets radio collar, by Kamal
Panthi (kp 30/01/2018)
Poachers
pose serious threat to wildlife in Bajhang, by
Jagat Khadka (kp 30/01/2018)
Parsa
National Park welcomes baby elephant, by Shankar
Acharya (kp 28/01/2018)
Cameras
for tiger census go missing, by Shiva Puri (kp
26/01/2018)
Chitwan
National Park taking leap in conservation of rare
species (ht 25/01/2018)
‘Chitwan
wetlands lose six duck species’ (kp 23/01/2018)
Wildlife
victims of Saptari fume at government apathy (ht
23/01/2018)
Four
arrested
in possession of red panda hides: Unfounded belief
that the skin fetches high prices leads to increased
poaching of the animal (ht 22/01/2018)
Elephants
terrorizing locals of Damak, by Yuvraj Bibash (rep
22/01/2018)
Elephants
wreaking havoc in Bardiya settlements, by Kamal
Panthi (kp 17/01/2018)
KMC’s
inaction blamed for rising dog-bite incidents (ht
16/01/2018)
PNP
to get baby elephant after 18 yrs (ht 16/01/2018)
Migratory
birds' census begins at Chitwan National Park, by
Ramesh Kumar Paudel (rep 15/01/2018)
Tiger
census to be held in community forests as well, by
Narayan Sharma (kp 12/01/2018)
A
woof of fresh air: Kathmandu gets citizens to be
responsible for their community dogs, by Ryan
Chang (nt 12/01/2018)
Siberian
birds flock to Rara to escape cold, by Suman Malla
(rep 11/01/2018)
Counting
of water birds begins (kp 07/01/2018)
150
species of winter migratory birds arrive (ht
04/01/2018)
White-rumped
vultures lay 17 eggs, hatch two chicks (ht
01/01/2018)
Tuskers
unleash terror in Siraha district (ht 30/12/2017)
PNP
animal numbers up thanks to Rambhauribhatha grassland,
by Shankar Acharya (kp 29/12/2017)
Greater
adjutant spotted in Koshi Tappu after 22 yrs, by
Bedraj Paudel (kp 27/12/2017)
Army
starts training for operation to protect (kp
22/12/2017)
Dancing
to freedom: Nepal’s last two remaining dancing bears
are rescued from owners, by Ryan Heng Chang (nt
22/12/2017)
Phase
I national tiger census completed (ht 20/12/2017)
CNP
team reaches Bardia in search of male gharial (ht
20/12/2017), Male
gharial being taken to Chitwan National Park from
Bardiya (ht 23/12/2017), CNP
releases male ghariyal into Rapti, by Shiva Puri
(kp 25/12/2017)
Sikaribash
folk demand settlement relocation, by Shankar
Acharya (kp 18/12/2017)
Male
rhino found dead in CNP, by Bimal Khatiwada (kp
17/12/2017)
Migratory
birds arriving in Jagadishpur in droves, by Manoj
Paudel (kp 16/12/2017)
Equus:
Animal activists work for the welfare of Nepal’s mules
and donkeys, by Ziyu Lin (nt 15/12/2017)
Park
officials all set for tiger census in Bardiya and
Banke (kp 13/12/2017)
Search
for new male gharial to start after polls: The only
male gharial of the CNP died in May (kp
07/12/2017)
Koshi
Tappu elephants kill 4 people in last 5 days, by
Amar Khadka (rep 05/12/2017)
Leopards
terrorise locals in Khotang (ht 04/12/2017)
Curtain
comes
down on elephant polo after 35 years: Tiger Tops, the
organiser of the annual International Elephant Polo
Competition, has announced that it would stop hosting
the event from this year to support the movement
against animal cruelty, by Sangam Prasain and
Nabin Poudel (kp 03/12/2017)
Nationwide
tiger census kicks off from Parsa, by Chandan
Mandal (kp 01/12/2017)
Saving
the ghost: Employing the latest tracking methods,
Nepal is leading the way in snow leopard
conservation, by Tsewang Nuru Sherpa (kp
28/11/2017)
Tiger
movement
‘disturbed’ along Eastwest Highway: A total of 30
cameras have been installed on either side of
the Bharatpur-Ratanagar section of the highway
that traverses through adjoining buffer zone and
forest area of the CNP (kp 26/11/2017)
More
rhinos means more encounter: National park may be the
victim of its own conservation success story, by
Alex Dudley (nt 24/11/2017)
Tiger
census postponed until November 30, by Chandan
Kumar Mandal (kp 17/11/2017)
Flood-displaced
rhino repatriated from India, by Shiva Puri (kp
12/11/2017)
Puppy
factory:
For a country that is famous for celebrating
KukurTihar to honour canine ‘loyalty and
friendship’, Nepal’s pet industry is alarmingly
unregulated‘, by Abjeet Pant (kp 04/11/2017)
Snake
rampage scares locals (rep 26/10/2017)
Too
little space for animals at Central Zoo (ht
25/10/2017)
Wildlife
crossings not commodious for larger animals, say CNP
officials, by Shiva Puri (kp 24/10/2017)
Saving
the
ghosts of the mountains: The state has formed a plan
of mitigation and prevention to save the snow leopard
while ensuring livelihood security of people, by
Sheren Shrestha (kp 24/10/2017)
Endangered
Indian pangolin found in Kailali, by Yogesh Rawal
(rep 24/10/2017)
Six
held with live chimpanzees, other protected animals,
birds (ht 23/10/2017)
Wildlife
meat openly bought and sold in Bajhang: Local
administration complicit in the illegal act, by
Jagat Khadka (rep 14/10/2017)
Climate
change to favour small mammals: Study, by Chandan
Kumar Mandal (kp 09/10/2017)
70
species of winter migratory birds arrive (ht
09/10/2017)
Govt
set to develop tiger database by the end of 2018
(ht 08/10/2017)
Search
on in Arghakhanchi for man-eating pards, by
Birendra KC (kp 08/10/2017)
Govt
to maintain current growth rate of rhinos (kp
05/10/2017)
Ban
on tourism in red panda habitats of national park
lifted (ht 04/10/2017)
Host
of parasitic diseases detected among wild water
buffaloes in CNP, by Shiva Puri (kp 03/10/2017)
Nepal,
India to conduct joint tiger census in November
(ht 02/10/2017)
Woman
dies in tiger attack (ht 02/10/2017)
Translocated
water buffaloes recovering in the aftermath of flood
disaster in CNP, by Tilak Ram Rimal (ht
02/10/2017)
Human-wildlife
conflict
continues: 19 died in Chitwan and Bardiya last year;
Officials say most wildlife attacks occurred inside
protected areas; CNP chief conservation officer Ram
Chandra Kandel says more often than not humans are at
fault when there are incidents of animals attacking
people, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 25/09/2017)
Experts
raise concern over declining Mahseer numbers (kp
23/09/2017)
Conservation
of one-horned rhinos a challenging task (ht
23/09/2017)
Baitadi
villages under threat of leopard menace, by Bira
Gadal (rep 18/09/2017)
70
per cent migratory birds disappear from Valley (ht
17/09/2017)
Dolphin
number down by 66 pc in Karnali River (ht
17/09/2017)
BNP
upbeat after fresh gharial breeding: Fish-eating
crocodiles have bred 14 babies this year (kp
16/09/2017), Conservationists
elated at increase in BNP tiger count: The protected
area now is home to 62 adult big cats and 13 cubs,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 17/09/2017)
World
Red Panda day: Conservationists demand more action
from government, by Ananda Gautam (kp 16/09/2017)
Post-flood
scenario shows wildlife badly hit in Chitwan National
Park (ht 13/09/2017)
Rhino
habitats destroyed after floods: CNP, by Shiva
Puri (kp 11/09/2017)
Studying
impact of human activities on wildlife: Researchers
fear delay after losing 6 cameras (kp 07/09/2017)
Himalayan
black bears under threat in Jumla, by DB Buda (rep
07/09/2017)
CNP
trying to ascertain no. of rhinos affected by floods
(kp 06/09/2017)
Search
on for killer leopard (kp 30/08/2017)
Two
rhinos swept from CNP found alive in Susta (kp
30/08/2017)
Snakebite
cases rise after tarai floods: Sagarmatha Zonal
Hospital lacks medcine, manpower,
by Jitendra Jha (rep
29/08/2017)
Small
mammals: Experts call to step up conservation efforts
(kp 28/08/2017), Meet
on conservation of mammals under way (ht
29/08/2017)
Yaks
face
extinction due to low birth rate: The number of yaks
has been declining all over the country because
of their stubborn nature, according to a vet at
the District Livestock Services offce, Dolakha, by
Rajendra Manandhar (kp 28/08/2017)
Leopard
the most poached animal species in Valley (ht
26/08/2017)
Nepal
leads the way in snow leopard conservation (ht
24/08/2017)
Snakebite
cases up in Kanchanpur, by Bhawani Bhatta (kp
23/08/2017)
Bardiya’s
vulture population under threat (kp 23/08/2017)
Tiger
population increases in Parsa National park, by
Ramesh Kumar Paudel (rep 23/08/2017), PNP
tiger population up to 19 from 7 in 4 years, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 25/08/2017)
Wildlife
affected in floods across protected areas, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 22/08/2017)
CNP
prepares to rescue four rhinos swept away by Rapti,
by Bimal Khatiwada (kp 17/08/2017), Flood
washes away Chitwan rhinos to India, by Ramesh
Kumar Paudel (rep 18/08/2017), Displaced
CNP rhino rescued from India, by Shiva Puri (kp
19/08/2017), All
CNP rhinos rescued from India (kp 24/08/2017)
Nepal
to present its snow leopard protection plan in Bishkek
(ht 17/08/2017)
Rhino
found dead in CNP flooding (ht 15/08/2017)
Snow
leopards spotted in Gorkha’s Chum Valley, by Sudip
Kaini (kp 10/08/2017)
NTNC
installs cameras at Tikauli to study wildlife (kp
10/08/2017)
Kailali
sees jump in snakebite cases in last three months
(ht 08/08/2017)
Red
panda
conservation included in school texts, by Shahiman
Rai (kp 01/08/2017)
Pregnant
rhino
died of ‘anthrax’ in CNP (kp 01/08/2017)
Nepal
on
course to achieving ’22 target: Country aims to take
number of wild cats to 250 in 5 years (30/07/2017)
No
leopard
sighted in Valley in last 10 months (ht
30/07/2017)
Wild
animals know no borders, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel
and Rajendra Bhatta (rep 30/07/2017)
Roaring
back, by Simrika Sharma (kp 29/07/2017) [on Banke
National Park and the growing number of tigers]
Wild
tuskers
wreaking destruction in Panbari, by Pradeep
Menyangbo (kp 28/07/2017), Tusker
raids
terrorise Panbara residents (ht 28/07/2017)
Deaths
from wildlife attacks rising, by Ramesh Kumar
Paudel (rep 28/07/2017)
Hunting
permit
in conservation area sought (ht 28/07/2017)
Project
to
study vehicles’ impact on wildlife (kp 28/07/2017)
14
killed
in wild animal attacks in CNP in 2016/17 (ht
22/07/2017)
Tusker
terror
in Bhadrapur (ht 21/07/2017)
A
tigress that has killed 19 humans, by Ramesh Kumar
Paudel (rep 19/07/2017)
25
rhinos
‘died’ last fiscal in Chitwan National Park, by
Shiva Puri (kp 18/07/2017)
Dolphin
population
in Karnali faces decline: Only six spotted in the
river in recent times; Irrigation, fishing major
threat to cetaceans, by Kamal Panthi (kp
17/07/2017)
Snakebites
kill
seven in three months (kp 17/07/2017)
Corridors
of
life: Nepal aims to increase the number of tigers to
double the current level by 2018. But it has been
tough to balance its conservation and infrastructure
development, by Kanchan Thapa (rep 13/07/2017)
Wildlife
poaching
on the rise: 107 arrested with body parts of 46
animals in 2016-17 (ht 12/07/2017)
Tourism
in Everest thrives on animal abuse, by Niraj
Chandra Roy (rep 30/06/2017)
Snow
leopards threaten yak farming in Mustang, by
Santosh Pokhrel (rep 28/06/2017)
Two
rhinos
die in one week (ht 27/06/2017)
CNP
likely
to begin search for new male gharial from Oct, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 26/06/2017)
Bird
population
declines in Valley (ht 24/06/2017)
The
cuckoo’s
call: With concrete houses sprouting on what were
fertile fields not long ago these birds are growing
hungry, by Devendra Gautam (rep 24/06/2017)
Wildlife
road
traffic accidents on rise: Collisions threaten
conservation efforts, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
23/06/2017)
CNP
officials
face challenge with death of only male gharial (ht
21/06/2017)
CNP’s
CCTV
cameras fail to work as deterrent (kp 20/06/2017)
Monkeys
at
Pashupatinath area starving (ht 20/06/2017)
Croc
eggs
collected for safety (kp 16/06/2017), 353
gharial
eggs collected (ht 16/06/2017)
It’s
a
wild world out here: When voters start demanding from
election candidates that they want protection from
aggressive wildlife, it’s time for conservationists to
listen, by Navin Singh Khadka (kp 17/06/2017)
Compensation
for
victims of wildlife attacks doubled, by Chandam
Kumar Mandal (kp 15/06/2017), Where
wild
things are
New directive only addresses the effect but not the
cause of human-wildlife encounters (kp 16/06/2017)
Monkeys
causing
no harm to devotees: PADT (ht 14/06/2017)
Tiger
population
increasing in Chitwan National Park (ht
12/06/2017)
Upper
Marshyangdi
‘A’ hydel releases 150,000 fingerlings, by Aash
Gurung (kp 03/06/2017)
Spot-billed
pelican
spotted (kp 29/05/2017)
Yalung:
Tracking
and collaring the ghost cat of Kanchenjunga, by
Samundra Subba (kp 25/05/2017)
Vulture
population
stabilising in Nepal (ht 25/05/2017), White-rumped
vulture
population rising: Survey (kp 26/05/2017)
Conserve
the
red panda, by Yogesh Rana Magar (ht 25/05/2017)
Over
4,000
valuable animal parts burned to ashes: Move symbolises
Nepal’s commitment against wildlife trade, poaching,
by Dipendra Baduwal and Shiva Puri (kp 23/05/2017), Searching
for
sanctuary: Destruction of animal parts in Chitwan
should now be backed with local ownership of wildlife
(kp 24/05/2017)
Rich
in diversity: The challenge is to carry out tourism
activities sustainably, without harming our
biodiversity, by Shankar Adhikari (rep 22/05/2017)
Nine
bird
species vanish from Kathmandu Valley (ht
16/05/2017)
PADT
sets
up six water pots for monkeys in Pashupati area
(ht 14/05/2017)
Five
migratory
bird species disappear from Nepal (ht 13/05/2017)
Habitat
mapping
of 20 IUCN red-listed mammals completed: Flagship
species including tiger, one-horned rhino and snow
leopard are among animals whose habitats have already
been mapped (ht 12/05/2017)
Parsa
wildlife
reserve installs CCTV cameras (ht 11/05/2017)
Two
recently
translocated swamp deer die in Chitwan (kp
07/05/2017)
Law
enacted
to check trade in animal parts (ht 03/05/2017)
Woman
killed, man injured in two separate rhino attacks,
by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (rep 01/05/2017)
Man
dies in jackal attack (rep 28/04/2017)
Five
ponds
built for parched animals in Shuklaphanta, by
Bhawani Bhatta (kp 27/04/2017)
Two
swamp
deer moved to CNP (kp 27/04/2017)
3
great white pelicans sighted in Chitwan (kp
22/04/2017)
Conservationists:
Check
atrocities against wildlife (kp 20/04/2017), Call
to
monitor, reduce human-wildlife conflict (ht
20/04/2017)
Two
CNP
rhinos wander their way to Rautahat: Authorities
preparing to return them home soon, by Shiva Puri
(kp 20/04/2017)
Locals
building
15 km wall to stop wildlife incursions, by Shiva
Puri (kp 19/04/2017)
Rhinos
continue
to face threat from poachers: Recent killing of a
pachyderm in Chitwan exposes their vulnerability; 52
persons have been held in seven years—most of them
foot soldiers—with ringleaders walking free, by
Samipa Khanal (kp 16/04/2017)
Vultures
moved
to Pithauli aviary (ht 16/04/2017)
22-km
electric
fence erected in Bardiya, by Kamal Panthi (kp
16/04/2017)
Three
CNP rhinos translocated to Bardia amid protests,
by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (rep 12/04/2017)
One-horned
rhinos
are on road to recovery (kp 11/04/2017)
Poachers
kill
one-horned rhino in Chitwan: Incident comes amid
preparations to mark third zero poaching year, by
Dipendra Baduwal and Shiva Puri (kp 09/04/2017), Investigation
launched
into killing of one-horned rhino, vy Shiva Puri
(kp 10/04/2017), Loathsome
trade:
Investigation should expose the dirty nexus involved
in rhino poaching (kp 12/04/2017)
DFO
drafts
pest extermination proposal (ht 09/04/2017)
CNP
preparing
to shift 6 endangered vultures to Pithauli, by
Shiva Puri (kp 09/04/2017)
Banke
Nat’l
Park to be ‘tiger zone’, by Krishna Prasad Gautam
(kp 07/04/2017)
Two
dead,
five injured in elephant attack, by Abdhesh Kumar
Jha (kp 05/04/2017)
Leopard
briefly
shuts down TIA (kp 04/04/2017)
First
of
five rhinos shifted to Shuklaphanta from CNP, by
Shiva Puri (kp 04/04/2017)
Small
fish
and scapegoats: Illegal trade of wildlife cannot
thrive without the nexus between politicians, forest
officials, security forces and traders, by Shradha
Ghale (kp 03/04/2017)
Northern
migratory
birds return home as summer sets in (ht
03/04/2017)
Rhino
translocation
from April (ht 27/03/2017), Rhinos
fighting for survival in new location, by Ramesh
Kumar Paudel (rep 27/03/2017)
Roadkill
of
wild animals in BNP area ‘alarming’, by Krishna
Prasad Gautam (kp 26/03/2017), Nine
animals
killed along East-West Highway, by Shiva Puri (kp
16/03/2017)
Number
of
one-horned rhinoceros on the rise in Chitwan National
Park (ht 25/03/2017)
Tiger
numbers
up in Kailali, Kanchanpur (ht 24/03/2017)
Wildlife
rescue
centre opens in Pokhara Lekhnath, by Lal Prasad
Sharma (kp 22/03/2017)
Conservationists
achieve
roaring transformation: Tiger sightings in Kanchanpur
forests after 20 years, by DR Panta and Bhawani
Bhatta (kp 21/03/2017)
14
people killed by Koshi Tappu animals in 8 years,
by Amar Khadka (rep 21/03/2017)
Three
generations into rhino poaching, Prajas dirt poor
still, by Roshan Sedhai (rep 20/03/2017)
Protecting
less
known species: Poaching of rhinos and tigers drops,
but there is an alarming rise in smuggling of
pangolins, musk deer and bears, by Shreejana
Shrestha (nt 17/03/2017)
Rabies-infected
wild
rats terrorise locals (ht 13/03/2017)
The
all-unnatural
diet: How human food is putting Kathmandu’s urban
monkeys at risk, by Jess Worsley (kp 11/03/2017)
18-year-old
killed
in tusker attack (kp 09/03/2017)
White-rumped
vulture
conservation makes progress (kp 06/03/2017), Vultures
making
a comeback (ht 07/03/2017)
Gharial
population
declining in Nepal (ht 04/03/2017), Gharial
number
declining, by Shiva Puri (kp 06/03/2017)
Far-west
hotels
selling meat of protected species (ht 25/02/2017)
Cat
concerns:
Human encroachment on wildlife habitat requires
immediate attention (kp 24/02/2017)
Studying
cat
scat, by Sonam Tashi Lama (nt 24/02/2017)
Animal
activism, by Isha Upadhyay (rep 24/02/2017)
Vulture
population
under threat (kp 23/02/2017)
Leopard
refuses
to climb down from tree in Gothatar: Rescues team
fails to dart the wild cat, hopes it will return home
(kp 22/02/2017)
On
the brink: Conservation is not only about rhinos and
tigers. Many little known species also need protection,
by Kumar Paudel (rep 16/02/2017)
Forest
officials
to ramp up efforts to save red panda: While some
pandas are found in the country’s conservation
areas, 75 percent of potential red panda habitat
falls outside the protected areas (kp 12/02/2017)
New
bird
species sighted in Upper Dolpa (kp 11/02/2017)
Leopard
rescued
after it strays into a house (kp 09/02/2017), Leopards
increasingly enter human settlements of Kathmandu
Valley, by Ram Saran Tamang (kp 09/02/2017)
Tiger
enters
Parsa village, shot dead by police (kp
08/02/2017), Tiger
injures 10 in Parsa, by Ritesh Tripathi (rep
08/02/2017)
Sparrows,
drongos
disappearing: Decline in population a major cause for
concern (kp 08/02/2017)
CNP
gets
11 wild water buffaloes in 12 days (kp 07/02/2017)
Govt
move
irks animal rights activists (kp 05/02/2017)
Wildlife-affected
people
demand change in conservation act, by Bimal
Khatiwada (kp 05/02/2017)
Man
killed
in animal attach (kp 01/02/2017)
Stray
dogs becoming a threat for the deer of the Chitwan
National Park, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (rep
31/01/2017)
Red
panda
sightings getting rarer in Taplejung of late,
by Ananda Gautam (kp 30/01/2017)
‘Habitat
loss
major threat to rhino conservation’ (ht
30/01/2017)
Breeding
the greed: The parliament is considering allowing
individuals to breed and use wild animals for any
reason whatsoever, by Shristi Shrestha (rep
30/01/2017)
Wild
elephants
destroy 12 houses in Bardiya (kp 27/01/2017)
CNP
marks
1,000 days of zero rhino poaching (kp 27/01/2017)
‘One-horned
rhinos
could be wiped out from Nepal’ (ht 27/01/2017)
Man
Vs Wild: 158 humans killed in 17 years, by Ramesh
Kumar Paudel (rep 26/01/2017)
Kalikot
locals worried over growing wildlife poaching, by
Pabitra Kumar Shahi (rep 24/01/2017)
Amendment
to
wildlife protection law on cards (ht 23/01/2017)
'Put
vulture
restaurants on the tourist map' (ht 21/01/2017)
Spay
as
you go Proper measures need to be taken to control the
population of stray dogs (kp 20/01/2017)
Spl
zones
planned to protect snow leopards (kp 18/01/2017),
Int’l
conference
on snow leopards kicks off in Kathmandu (ht
18/01/2017), Cat
concerns:
Why we need to be really worried if snow leopards are
under threat, by Navin Singh Khadka (kp
20/01/2017), Delegates
arrive
in Valley for GSLEP meeting (ht 20/01/2017), Rs
50m
pledged for snow leopard conservation (kp
21/01/2017)
Police
confiscate weapons and wildlife parts from forest
guard's house, by Madan Thakur (rep 18/01/2017)
Bird
count
begins in KTWR (kp 17/01/2017)
Illegal
hunting
goes up as snow covers upper Bajhang, by Basanta
Pratap Singh (kp 16/01/2017)
Call
of
the wild: Besides serving as an attraction for
children, the Central Zoo has also become a refuge for
rescued endangered animals, by Smriti Basnet (nt
13/01/2017)
Indian
woman
dies in wild tusker attack (kp 11/01/2017)
Four
injured in leopard attack (rep 09/01/2017)
Himalayan
blue
sheep population increases (ht 08/01/2017)
Wildlife
poaching
continues unabated (ht 07/01/2017)
Chinese
team
in CNP to study rhino habitat: A team of wildlife
experts and the DNPWC officials will also conduct
habitat study in China to transfer two pairs of rhinos
there, by Shiva Puri (kp 06/01/2017), Chinese
team
observes rhino habitat in Nepal (ht 09/01/2017)
Tuskar
menace in Bardiya: 36 killed by wild elephants in 17
years, by Nirmal Ghimire (rep 05/01/2017)
PREPS
on
to shift 20 water buffaloes to CNP from KTWR (kp
04/01/2017)
Pregnant
rhino
found dead in Nawalparasi, by Nabin Paudel (kp
03/01/2017)
Rampant
poaching in Mugu endangers many species, by Suman
Malla (rep 03/01/2017)
Bird
Conservation
Nepal records 13,749 birds in Valley (ht
01/01/2017)
Leopards
found
in Manang (kp 31/12/2016)
NA
begins
campaign against poaching in CNP (ht 31/12/2016)
Chitwan
rhinos to be transferred to Shuklaphanta (rep
31/12/2016)
Wild
elephants
cause menace in Bardiya (kp 30/12/2016)
Red
Panda Conservation Network formed (rep 28/12/2016)
3-year-old
girl
dies, gran injured in rhino attack, by Nabin
Paudel (kp 26/12/2016)
Five
CNP
rhinos to be shifted to Shuklaphanta (kp
24/12/2016)
Road
accidents threaten tiger conservation efforts, by
Nirmal Ghimire (rep 24/12/2016)
Vulture
census
begins in ACAP vicinity (ht 24/12/2016)
Encouraging
signs
from 1st round tiger count in Parsa Wildlife Reserve:
Number of big cats found to be 16 (kp 21/12/2016)
Dolphin
conservation
action plan in offing (ht 17/12/2016)
Allow
tigers
to roam more freely: Nepal’s target of doubling its
tiger population could be undermined by new
infrastructure criss-crossing Tarai forests, by Om
Astha Rai (nt 16/122/2016)
Caught
red
handed with Red Pandas: Lately there has been a
mysterious spurt of smuggling of Red Panda hide within
Nepal, by Smriti Basnet (nt 16/12/2016)
‘Population
of
Asiatic wild dog up in PWR’, by Shankar Acharya
(kp 12/12/2016)
Nepal’s
43
districts home to pangolins (kp 11/12/2016)
Govt
to
update status of protected species (ht 11/12/2016)
Two
injured
in tiger attack (kp 11/12/2016)
‘Proposed
roads,
highways pose threat to wildlife’ (ht 10/12/2016)
Hunters
become saviors for dwindling gorals, by Ramesh
Kumar Paudel (rep 10/12/2016)
New
technology
helping govt curb wildlife crime (ht 08/12/2016)
Children
terrorised
by wild elephants (kp 30/11/2016)
Locals
demand
check on wild animal menace in buffer zone, by
Nabin Paudel (kp 27/11/2016)
Paradise
lost:
Climate change and the loss of habitat continue to
threaten Nepal’s status as a favourite transit and
wintering spot for migratory birds, by Pragati
Shahi (kp 26/11/2016)
Tiger
census
starts in Bardiya (kp 21/11/2016)
Nepali
Assamese
monkeys may be a separate species (ht 21/11/2016)
New
animals
recorded in Shivapuri National Park (ht
17/11/2016)
Preparations
on
to translocate 10 more rhinos to Bardiya, by Kamal
Panthi (kp 16/11/2016)
School
bus brings respite, but fear looms large, by
Nirmal Ghimire (rep 15/11/2016)
Fly,
you
fools: Does Kathmandu have a pigeon problem?, by
Nissim Raj Angdembay (kp 12/11/2016)
Elderly
man
dies in wild elephant attack (ht 05/11/2016)
Bardiya
locals
unite to conserve declining dolphin population (kp
29/10/2016)
Jackals
terrorising
locals in Rautahat (ht 29/10/2016), 16
jackal
bite victims to receive treatment in Teku
hospital (kp 04/11/2016)
South
Asian
countries join hands to fight wildlife crime (kp
28/10/2016)
Jackal
attack
victim dies in Capital (kp 24/10/2016)
Relocation
of
rhinos, wild buffaloes delayed (ht 24/10/2016)
Migratory
birds
start arriving in Koshi Tappu, by Bedraj Poudel
(kp 23/10/2016)
DFO
vehicle
on standby for wildlife rescue (kp 21/10/2016)
CNP
without
animal hospital; sick, injured animals at risk:
According to the CNP, three rescued rhinos succumbed
to injuries during treatment in the last three months,
by Shiva Puri (kp 21/10/2016)
People’s
Participation, by Bhimsen Thapaliya (rn
19/10/2016)
Game
hunters
on the prowl in Dhorpatan (kp 18/19/2016)
Smuggling
of endangered animal parts continues unabated, by
Devendra Basnet (rep 18/10/2016)
Rhino
calf
dies a month after it was found with serious injuries,
by Shiva Puri (kp 17/10/2016)
New
discovery
takes no. of bird species in Nepal to 879 (kp
16/10/2016)
Migratory
birds
arrive in Nepal to spend winter (ht 16/10/2016)
Chitwan
Park
breeding centre sees increase in elephant population
(kp 16/10/2016)
Wildlife
thriving
in Tilaurakot forest: Number of peacocks, blue bulls,
yellow-throated martens, spotted deer, pythons and
jackals grows, by Manoj Paudel (kp 16/10/2016)
Fencing
of
zoological garden under way (ht 16/10/2016)
Mobile
app
being used to monitor red panda (ht 15/10/2016)
Govt
plans
animal rescue centres: Deer Research Centre in
Lalitpur to be converted into Wildlife Rescue and
Rehabilitation facility; The move is aimed
atprotecting wild animals amid escalating
human-wildlife conflicts , by Pragati Shahi (kp
09/10/2016)
Equipment
to
trace big cats given to police (kp 09/10/2016)
Ode
to goat: The goat looked me straight in the eye with a
kind of intensity and intelligence I had never seen
before, by Ketan Dulal (nt 07/10/2016)
Red
panda smuggling baffles police, by Kamal Pariyar
(rep 06/10/2016)
Jackal
terror
in Rautahat: 40 wounded (kp 05/10/2016)
Most
stray
dogs in Pokhara vaccinated against rabies, by Lal
Prasad Sharma (kp 04/10/2016)
Animal
sacrifice:
Compassion needed, by Bishal Bhattarai (ht
03/10/2016)
Born
to
be free: Instead of riding them to observe wildlife,
elephants themselves are now tourist attractions,
by Lucia De Vries (nt 30/09/2016)
Kathmandu
Ward
20 to be announced stray dog free zone: There are an
estimated 22,000 stray dogs in Kathmandu, by Anup
Ojha (kp 29/09/2016), First
dog-managed
zone declared in KMC (ht 30/09/2016)
CITES
bans
trade of all eight pangolin species (kp
29/09/2016)
Of
tributes and celebrations (rep 23/09/2016)
Tuskers
terrorising
Kanchanpur (ht 21/09/2016)
Bardiya
villages living with elephant menace, by Nirmal
Ghimire (rep 19/09/2016)
First
integrated
dolphin census concludes, by Pramod Kumar Tanadan
(ht 18/09/2016)
Bus
service
for students in BNP in view of rising tusker attacks,
by Kamal Panthi (kp 18/09/2016)
52-yr-old
man
dies in tiger attack (kp 18/09/2016)
Two
injured
rhino calves rescued in CNP, by Shiva Puri (kp
13/09/2016)
Leopard
sightings
become more frequent (ht 12/09/2016)
Leopard
gives
birth in city house, by Anup Ojha (kp 10/09/2016)
The
wolves
of Manang: The successful tracking of wolves in Upper
Manang has researchers jubilant and local herders
concerned, by Sumedh Malla (kp 10/09/2016)
Govt
change
hits management of wildlife parts, by Shiva Puri
(kp 08/09/2016)
Leopard
preys
on 4-year-old girl (kp 05/09/2016)
Police
bureau
spreading net to nab smugglers, by Pragati Shahi
(kp 03/09/2016)
DoNPWC
completes
first integrated dolphin census (ht 03/09/2016)
14
CNP
rhinos died last year, by Bimal Khatiwada (kp
01/09/2016)
Arghakhanchi
leopard
attack: Two girls killed in three days (kp
01/09/2016)
Kathmandu
to
have first wildlife ambulance service (kp
30/08/2016)
Faunal
biodiversity
study starts today: The study will assess the status
of existing animal life and their habitats in the
Chure region that stretches from Ilam in the East to
Kanchanpur in the West, by Chitranga Thapa (kp
26/08/2016)
NA
personnel
and ‘poachers’ exchange fire (kp 26/08/2016)
Rhino
found
with multiple bullet injuries (kp 21/08/2016), Injured
rhino
rescued, brought to Chitwan, by Shiva Puri (kp
22/08/2016), Rhino
death from bullet wounds ends zero poaching, by
Ramesh Kumar Paudel (rep 07/09/2016)
Woes
in
the wild: Animals would have so much to say about
sufferings from climate change, if only they could,
by Navin Singh Khadka (kp 19/08/2016)
Faunal
assessment
to be conducted in Chure range (ht 18/08/2016)
Time
ticking
for bats in Kathmandu Valley (ht 11/08/2016)
Tibetan
Argali
sighted in Upper Dolpo (kp 09/08/2016)
Court
order
against animal slaughter (kp 05/08/2016)
Solar
fencing:
Nepali villages relieved, but more tusker terror on
Indian side (kp 04/08/2016)
Wild
elephant
attacks kill four (ht 04/08/2016)
Leopard
strays
into Matatirtha, killed (kp 03/08/2016)
Leopard
rescued
after 48 hours (kp 02/08/2016)
Common
leopard
count in limbo, by Pramod Kumar Tandan (ht
02/08/2016)
World
tiger
day: All is not well yet for the big cats (kp
30/07/2016), Tiger
conservation
plan made public (ht 30/07/2016), Nepal
tiger
population likely to double by 2022; Tiger numbers
increased from 125 in 2010 to 198 in 2013 (ht
30/07/2016)
Celebrating
and conserving wildlife, by Simrika Sharma (rep
29/07/2016)
Rhino,
tiger
found dead in CNP, by Shiva Puri (kp 25/07/2016)
Govt
drafts
bill aiming to identify and conserve indigenous plants
(ht 24/07/2016)
Govt
starting
dolphin census from today, by Pramod Kumar Tandan
(ht 24/07/2016)
Bill
proposing
domestication of wild animals opposed (ht
23/07/2016)
Wounded
snow
leopard dies ‘for want of treatment’, by Binod
Tripathi (kp 22/07/2016)
Strong
measures
proposed to protect pangolin (kp 17/07/2016)
Wildlife
smugglers
using Nepalgunj Airport as transit: Police say lax
security at the airport is encouraging traffickers to
move animal parts to Chinese market (kp
15/07/2016)
KMC
to
launch drive to manage stray dogs: The metropolis says
it will launch the campaign in all 35 wards of
Kathmandu (kp 10/07/2016)
The
belly
of the beast: The recent decision to phase out
slaughter places in the Valley will not change the way
animals are killed inhumanely across the country,
by Lucia de Vries (kp 09/07/2016)
Statute
aiming
to curb wildlife crime approved (kp 05/07/2016)
Nepal
to
double its tiger population by 2018 (ht
05/07/2016)
Kathmandu
Valley
gradually becoming capital of stray cattle, by
Pramod Kumar Tandan (ht 05/07/2016)
Forest
users
involved in pangolin conservation, by Harihar
Singh Rathour (kp 02/07/2016)
Works
begin
to manage seized wildlife parts, by Shiva Puri (kp
27/06/2016)
More
out
of love than reverence: Seven to 10 cases of calves
being killed by stray dogs are reported daily from
different parts of Kathmandu, by Prateebha
Tuladhar (kp 26/06/2016)
Foundation
stone
of zoological garden laid (ht 24/06/2016)
Bear
attacks
hassling villagers (ht 15/06/2016)
Separate
bill
for zoo management sought (ht 14/06/2016)
Water
scarcity
forces wildlife to wander to human settlements, by
DB Buda (rep 14/06/2016)
Summer
migratory
birds arrive in Nepal (ht 12/06/2016)
Success
story
at BNP: 30 endangered gharials bred, by Pragati
Shahi (kp 08/06/2016)
CNP
launches
joint operation with NA to protect wildlife (ht
06/06/2016)
‘Extinct’
bird
sighted after 178 years, by Bimal Khatiwada (kp
03/06/2016)
Leopard
on
the loose, panic grips residents in Kuleshwor: Big cat
taken under control after five hours from a
residential house (kp 02/06/2016), Habitat
destruction,
lack of prey pushing leopards into cities (ht
03/06/2016), Habitat
Loss (rn 05/06/2016), Leopards
straying
into city to be fitted with radio tracking collar, by
Pramod Kumar Tandan (ht 05/06/2016)
Elderly
woman
killed in Parbat leopard attack (ht 02/06/2016)
Two
swamp
deer moved to Bardiya from Shuklaphanta (kp
02/06/2016)
Injured
in
rhino attack, elderly couple facing tough times: The
kin of the injured say neither the park authorities
nor other organisations have come forward to help,
by Shiva Puri (kp 29/05/2016)
Translocated
rhino
gives birth to male calf (kp 26/05/2016)
White-backed
vulture
no. up (kp 24/05/2016)
Dog
business
booms as pet ownership expands, by Zenith KC (kp
23/05/2016)
900
simians
infected with zoonotic diseases, by Pramod Kumar
Tandan (ht 23/05/2016)
Animals
from
parched Indian Tarai migrating to greener Nepal,
by Kushagra Dixit (New Kerala 22/05/2016), Animal
highways:
Securing safe wildlife corridors across borders must
be a conservation priority (kp 23/05/2016)
Saving
our
birds: Nepal cannot always look to foreign experts to
come and save its vulnerable birds, by Anisha
Pokharel (rep 21/05/2016)
21,856
stray
dogs in Capital (kp 20/05/2016)
Big
cats
face fresh danger with poachers back on the prowl:
Indian gypsy groups have entered Bardiya, Kailali
districts: Authorities, by Pragati Shahi (kp
18/05/2016)
NTNC,
ZSL
sign tiger conservation agreement (kp 18/05/2016)
‘Illegal
hunting
rife in Bajhang during Yarsa collection time’, by
Basanta Pratap Singh (kp 15/05/2016)
CIB
arrests
poacher of tiger-fitted with GPS (kp 13/05/2016)
Six
arrested
for deer poaching (kp 11/05/2016)
KMC
to
extend dog mgmt drive in Kathmandu, by Gaurav
Thapa (kp 08/05/2016)
Dead
caecilians,
not snakes, found in Dhading village, by Harihar
Singh Rathour (kp 06/05/2016)
Wild
animals,
birds hit hard by wildfires in western region (ht
06/05/2016)
Himalayan
wolves
found in Upper Mustang (ht 04/05/2016)
CNP
marks
2nd zero rhino poaching year: A rhino census in 2015
counted 645 rhinos in Nepal, of which 605 were in the
Chitwan National Park, by Bimal Khatiwada (kp
03/05/2016)
Arna
population
up in Koshi Tappu Reserve, by Bedraj Paudel (kp
02/05/2016)
Smuggling
tiger
parts rising along Nepal-India border, by Nirmal
Ghimire (rep 27/04/2016)
Vanishing
lakes
in Shuklaphanta threat to wildlife, by Rajendra
Bhatta (rep 26/04/2016)
CNP
launches
campaign for tiger, rhino conservation (kp
25/04/2016)
Drought
affects
wildlife in Chitwan, by Bimal Khatiwada (kp
21/04/2016)
KMC
declares
Singha Durbar first dog-managed zone in Valley (ht
21/04/2016)
KMC
begins
vaccination, campaign for street dogs, by Anup
Ojha (kp 21/04/2016)
CNP
to
begin gaur census tomorrow (kp 17/04/2016)
Vultures
pushed
to verge of extinction (ht 17/04/2016)
New
paradigm
set for tiger conservation (ht 16/04/2016)
Number
of
blackbucks up in Bardiya, by Kamal Panthi (kp
15/04/2016)
First
TB
death of CNP rhino stokes fear of outspread, by
Pawan Yadav (kp 15/04/2016)
Zero
rhino
poaching year at Chitwan National Park (ht
14/04/2016)
Rusty-spotted
cat
spotted in Shuklaphanta (kp 13/04/2016)
‘Doubling
tiger
nos in 6 yrs possible’: Poaching, prey loss, habitat
fragmentation remain as major threat to the big cats,
a recent research suggests, by Pragati Shahi (kp
10/04/2016)
Four
held
with leopard hides, by Biplab Maharjan (kp
03/04/2016)
Tiger
census
starts in Banke Park (kp 02/04/2016)
Suklaphanta
to
shift some of its swamp deer, by Bhawani Bhatta
(kp 25/03/2016)
KTWR
to
shift 30 ‘Arnas’ to Chitwan, by Bedraj Paudel (kp
23/03/2016)
Bardia,
Chitwan
to get swamp deer from Shuklaphanta, by Rajendra
Bhatta (rep 21/03/2016)
Endangered
Gharial
census set to begin (ht 18/03/2016)
Nepal,
India
chalk out plans to save the tiger, by Pragati
Shahi (kp 17/03/2016), Nepal,
India
plan joint operation to save tigers, by Kamal
Pariyar (rep 18/03/2016)
Researchers,
academics,
security bodies want wildlife trophies preserved,
by Kamal Pariyar (rep 17/03/2016), Mgmt
of
wildlife body parts, trophies a big challenge, by
Pawan Yadav (kp 20/03/2016), House
panel
to suggest measures for protection of wild animal
parts (ht 21/03/2016)
Birds
of
passage: Bird migratory species are most vulnerable to
the global environment crisis because breeding areas
along their routes are being converted into farms,
by Liew Yu Wei (nt 11/03/2016)
KMC
starts
dog census (kp 10/03/2016), KMC
signs
to manage Capital’s stray dogs (kp 17/03/2016)
Rhino
relocation:
New guest leaves Babai Valley, reaches Shivapur,
by Kamal Panthi (kp 09/03/2016)
Chitwan
National
Park to add two more wildlife species (kp
08/03/2016)
A
case for the endangered owls: None of the species of
owls found in Nepal are prioritised in the IUCN Red
List 2015; due to which, their status is often
overlooked by institutional agencies or the government,
by Diwakar Sapkota (kp 07/03/2016)
Over
100
bird species under threat (kp 04/03/2016)
Leopards
losing
their territory: With their habitat shrinking due to
human activities, the big cats are entering human
settlements in search of food, and it’s a bad prospect
for both parties (kp 04/03/2016)
200
street
dogs treated (kp 04/03/2016)
Zero
poaching
The govt cannot afford to be complacent about recent
gains in rhino conservation (kp 02/03/2016)
Rhino
relocation:
On the horns of dilemma; Plan to shift pachyderms
meets with fierce protes, by Bimal Khatiwada and
Pawan Yadav (kp 01/03/2016), Rhino
transfer
to Bardiya protested citing security (ht
01/03/2016), Amid
uproar
officials claim BNP is safe (kp 02/03/2016), Rhino
translocation
resumes after 13 yrs (kp 03/03/2016), A
new home for rhinos, by Abdullah Miya (kp
05/03/2016)
One
monkey
terrorises Jaleshwor, bites 7 kids (kp 28/02/2016)
Five
rhinos
to be transferred to Bardiya (ht 28/02/2016)
The
forgotten
mammal: We must be willing to fight just as fervently
for less popular animals such as the pangolin as we
would for the tiger or the rhino, by Prativa
Kaspal (kp 27/02/2016)
Stray
dog
menace worries Singha Durbar officials (ht
26/02/2016)
20
tuskers
infected with tuberculosis (ht 26/02/2016)
Bear
menace
in villages close to national park, by Dipendra
Shakya (kp 25/02/2016)
Camera
traps
installed to locate pangolin habitats: Churia and
Mahabharat range are home to two of the seven pangolin
species (kp 23/02/2016)
Bahundangi
feels
safer after electric fence installation, by Parbat
Portel (kp 23/02/2016)
Despite
poor
safety records, authorities moving rhinos to Bardiya
National Park, by Ramesh Kumar Poudel (rep
23/02/2016)
BNP
to
train visitors to wildlife safety, by Kamal Panthi
(kp 17/02/2016)
Babariya:
A
community of professional tiger poachers, by Dil
Bahadur Chhatyal (rep 17/02/2016)
Company
of
wolves: The concerned communities should be involved
in the wolf conservation, by Chun Bahadur Gurung
(kp 16/02/2016)
Dutch
saved
from jaws of tiger in Bardiya, by Kamal Panthi (kp
15/02/2016)
Fodder
protection
must to avoid simian-human strife (ht 15/02/2016)
Poaching
still
a major threat to tigers: Demand for body parts
fuelling illegal hunting, by Pragati Shahi
(kp 12/02/2016)
KMC
seeks
support to manage stray dogs (kp 12/02/2016)
Electric
fence
in place to keep tuskers at bay (kp 10/02/2016)
Zero
rhino
poaching year marked, by Pawan Yadav (kp
08/02/2016)
Home
away
from home: Rescued red pandas from Rolpa find a new
home in Kathmandu’s zoo, by Sonam Tashi Lama (nt
05/02/2016)
Efforts
to
conserve gharials turn fruitless, by Tilak Ram
Rimal (ht 01/02/2016)
Leopard
cubs
released in wild (kp 30/01/2016)
Kathmandu’s
big
cats: With the Capital rapidly expanding outwards,
conflict with the wild animals of its outlying forests
is rising, by Pragati Shahi (kp 30/01/2016)
‘Destroy
seized
wildlife items’: Along with 69 tiger skins, there are
439 kgs of tiger and leopard bones stored in the
country, by Pawan Yadav (kp 28/01/2016)
Himalayan
goral
hides seized from Myagdi village (kp 28/01/2016)
Red
panda
droppings sighted in Lingjo area (ht 28/01/2016)
Authorities
fail
to notice owl poaching, meat sale, by Manoj Paudel
(kp 27/01/2016)
Black
giants:
Remaining population of rare wild yaks will be extinct
if conservation initiatives are not taken immediately,
by Naresh Kusi (kp 26/01/2016)
2
more rhinos radio-collared in Bardiya (kp
24/01/2016)
Woman
hurt
in leopard attack, by Anup Ojha (kp 23/01/2016), Leopard
on
the prowl rescued from a house in Kirtipur (ht
23/01/2016)
Two
held
for dealing in leopard skin, bones (ht 23/01/2016)
Tiger
count
underway in Bardiya National Park, by Nirmal
Ghimire (rep 22/01/2016)
9
children killed in leopard attacks in past five years:
Encroachment of wildlife habitat identified as one of
the major causes for increasing incidence of
human-wildlife conflict (kp 21/01/2016)
China
seeks
two pairs of one-horned rhino (ht 18/01/2016)
Boundary
demarcation
for zoological garden begins (ht 18/01/2016)
Madhes
agitation
affects flow of bird watchers to Koshi Tapu, by
Rohit Rai (rep 18/01/2016)
Water
bird
count kicks off in Chitwan, by Bimal Khatiwada (kp
17/01/2016)
Smuggling
of
rare endangered herbs to China rampant in Humla, Mugu
(ht 17/01/2016)
Study:
As
least 45 red pandas in Rara Park (kp 16/01/2016)
KMC
prefers
cows to oxen: To check the number of neglected
animals, KMC will provide sexed semen to cattle
farmers to inseminate mature cows, by Gaurav Thapa
(kp 15/01/2016)
Leopard
attacks
threatening kids (ht 15/01/2016)
CIB
steps
up anti-wildlife crime operation throughout nation
(ht 15/01/2015)
Leopard
attacks
claim 9 kids in 3 yrs (kp 15/01/2016)
A
dogged drive against stray dogs of Capital: A dogged
drive against stray dogs of Capital, by Gaurav
Thapa (kp 14/01/2016)
Wildlife
department
working to manage seized animal parts (kp
14/01/2016)
Banjara
involvement
a new trend in tiger poaching: Police (rep
14/01/2016)
Water
bird
count begins (kp 11/01/2016)
Wild
cat
in concrete jungle: Pard on the prowl prompts panic
(kp 10/01/2016)
Blackbuck
conservation
under threat: Officials, by Chitranga Thapa (kp
10/01/2016)
Tibetan
Lark
found in Upper Humla (kp 09/01/2016)
Another
orchid
species to boast, by Shiva Sharma (kp 08/01/2016)
NA
starts
operation to curb wildlife poaching (kp
08/01/2016)
Snow
leopard
kills herd of goats (kp 06/01/2016)
Tusker
menace
leaves Punarbas farmland barren, by Bhawani Bhatta
(kp 03/01/2016)
Training
on
rhino conservation: NA personnel taught to use
equipment such as camera, binoculars and GPS, by
Kamal Panthi (kp 02/01/2016)
Big
mammals
of Central Zoo to be relocated to new home, by
Anup Ojha (kp 31/12/2015)
Jumbos
to
the jungle: We should stop using elephants for human
entertainment at Chitwan National Park, by Ananta
Prakash Subedi (kp 29/12/2015)
Poaching
of
protected birds goes unchecked, by Basanta Pratap
Singh (kp 17/12/2015)
When
man
and elephant collide, by Siddhartha B. Bajracharya
(kp 01/11/2015)
Deal
signed
to study Chure wildlife, diversity (kp 17/11/2015)
Villagers
want
protected area for monkeys, by Chandra Karki (kp
15/11/2015)
Danfe,
wild
animals poaching rife in Bajhang, by Jagat Khadka
(kp 09/11/2015)
Three
held
with animal parts in two weeks (kp 01/11/2015)
Illegal
fishing
goes unchecked in Makwanpur, by Pratap Bista (kp
27/10/2015)
Wild
tuskers
unleash terror in Madi; destroy houses, crops (ht
25/10/2015)
Police
arrest
absconding poacher from Hetaunda (ht 25/10/2015)
Pangolin
conservation
campaign launched in Kavre district (ht
19/10/2015)
Dhorpatan
Hunting
Reserve hikes hunting fees, by Dilip Poudel (rep
10/10/2015)
Over
200
wildlife species discovered in Eastern Himalayas
(rep 10/10/2015)
Over
200
new species found in eastern Himalayas: WWF report
(ht 07/10/2015)
Erosion
shrinks
swamp deer habitat in SWR, by Bhawani Bhatta (kp
06/10/2015)
Tarai
bird
spotted in Kaski wetland, by Shiva Sharma (kp
05/10/2015)
Electric
fence
fails to prevent tusker terror, by Shankar Acharya
(kp 23/09/2015)
Govt
mulls
new model of zoo operation : A amendment proposal to
the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act
allows institutions or agencies to operate zoos
(kp 16/09/2015)
Govt
to
revive ‘wildlife gifting’, by Pragati Shahi (kp
13/09/2015)
Survival
of
wild yaks under increasing threat, by Pragati
Shahi (kp 01/09/2015)
Offset
fencing
begins in Jhapa (ht 30/08/2015)
Snagging
Sabo:
The rewards to doing fieldwork are innumerable, but
perhaps the most rewarding of rewards in my career has
been the spotting of the snow leopard—Sabo—twice last
year, by Bishnu Prasad Devkota (kp 22/08/2015))
Electric
fence
project begins at Bahundangi, by Parbat Portel (kp
17/08/2015)
Wildlife
body
parts smuggling rampant (ht 16/08/2015)
Pangolin
poaching,
smuggling on rise (kp 06/08/2015)
Pollution,
urbanisation
threatening large birds in Valley (ht 06/08/2015)
Phedi
villagers
want govt support in red panda conservation, by
Dambar Singh Rai (kp 03/08/2015), Khotang
locals
step in to conserve red panda (ht 08/08/2015)
Five-year
plan
for vulture conservation released (ht 01/08/2015),
5-year
plan
to conserve vultures (kp 02/08/2015)
Foundation
stone
laid for Pokhara zoo (ht 01/08/2015)
Tiger
count
soars in Banke, Bardiya, Shuklaphanta (kp
30/07/2015), Wild
cat
population up but threats persist (ht 30/07/2015)
Global
tiger
day: ‘Habitat chief conservation challenge’, by
Pragati Shahi (kp 29/07/2015)
Smuggling
threatens
big cats (ht 23/07/2015)
Metropolis
to
keep record of livestock (ht 23/07/2015)
Domestic
animals
to be recorded, by Anup Ojha (kp 20/07/2015)
Red
panda
conservation bid (ht 19/07/2015)
AWZNN
seeks
guarantee of animal rights in constitution (ht
18/07/2015)
Tusker
kills
girl (ht 16/07/2015)
National
animal:
Janajati CA members bat for rhino, by Roshan
Sedhai (kp 14/07/2015)
15
Krishnasar
blackbucks relocated, by Kamal Panthi (kp
09/07/2015), 12
black
bucks shifted to Shuklaphanta, by Rajendra Bhatta
(ht 11/07/2015)
Red
Panda
Network initiates conservation efforts (ht
09/07/2015)
Parasitic
infections
threaten red panda, by Ananda Gautam (kp
08/07/2015)
Langtang
National
Park closed for Red Panda's breeding season, by
Nirajan Poudel (ht 08/07/2015)
Need
of
National Zoological Garden stressed (ht
28/06/2015)
The
last
Shangrila, by Abhinawa Devkota (kp 27/06/2015) [on
Pallas cat]
Bio-corridor
for
conservation of endangered tigers (kp 23/06/2015)
Landslides,
floods
take toll on Tamor River fish (ht 12/06/2015)
Animals
also
suffered: An estimated 150,000 chicken, 8,000 water
buffaloes and cows and 14,500 pigs and goats died in
the quakes, by Sonia Awale (nt 12/06/2015)
Two
killed
in tusker attack (kp 11/06/2015)
Number
of
stray cattle up in capital, by Thomas Bogaty (ht
09/06/2015)
2nd
snow
leopard gets radio-tagged (kp 06/06/2015), Snow
leopard
collared with GPS (ht 09/06/2015)
Two
tuskers
found dead in two weeks, by Parbat Portel (kp
06/06/2015), Tusker
terror
in Jhapa villages (ht 06/06/2015)
Snakebite
kills
10-year-old (ht 04/06/2015)
Rhino
population
up by 21 pc, by Bhusan Yadav and Pragati Shahi (kp
06/05/2015)
3rd
zero
poaching yr of rhinos observed (kp 05/05/2015)
Central
Zoo
habitants survive Great Earthquake, by Thomas Bogaty
(ht 05/05/2015)
Success
story:
International experts and delegates from various Asian
countries have lauded Nepal's success in curbing
wildlife poaching as an inspiration, by Riwaj Rai
(rep 25/04/2015)
Wildlife
Conservation
For Our Future, by Bijaya Raj Paudyal (rn
22/04/2015)
Wild
animals
in CNP eating plastic, by Chandni Hamal (rep
22/04/2015)
Govt
set
to introduce DNA barcode to curb wildlife smuggling
(ht 22/04/2015)
‘Extinct’
wild
yak found in Humla: Study, by Pragati Shahi (kp
21/04/2015), Wild
yak
spotted after 50 years, by Riwaj Rai (rep
21/04/2015)
Leopard
preys
on 7-yr-old boy (kp 21/04/2015)
Taplejung
fire:
Auckland Zoo to help rebuild conservation office (kp
18/04/2015)
One-horned
rhino
census to start in Shuklaphanta today (ht
18/04/2015)
Patrolling
in
three districts to save wildlife, medicinal herbs
(ht 18/04/2015)
Wildlife
week
gets underway (kp 15/04/2015)
Rare
species
of bird sighted at Chitwan National Park, by Bhusan
Yadav (kp 13/04/2015)
20,000
goats
sacrificed in Dhading temple every year, by Harihar
Singh Rathaur (kp 11/04/2015)
Suklaphanta
Wildlife
Reserve faces staff crunch, regular work affected
(ht 11/04/2015)
Nepal
set
to start rhinoceros census from Saturday (ht
09/04/2015), Rhino
census
gets under way, by Bhusan Yadav (kp 12/04/2015), Census
of
one-horned rhino kicks off in Parsa, by Tilak Ram
Rimal (ht 12/04/2015)
Govt
policy
to blame for rise in snake bite deaths, by Shankar
Acharya (kp 08/04/2015)
Relocation
of
settlement proposed to combat poaching in BNP, by
Kamal Panthi (kp 08/04/2015)
Chain-free
enclosure
for CNP elephants (kp 07/04/2015)
International
zoo
to be established in Kaski (ht 04/04/2015)
1
dead, 7 hurt as rhino goes on rampage, by Pratap
Bista (kp 31/03/2015), Runaway
rhino
returns to Chitwan National Park, by Pratap Bista
(kp 01/04/2015)
Stray
dogs
terrorise locals (kp 29/03/2015)
Sans
operational
permit, regional zoo in limbo, by Amrita Anmol (kp
25/03/2015)
Carrying
Chitwan:
Elephants play a pivotal role in Chitwan’s tourism
industry. But the pachyderms and their handlers have
to put up with a lot of hardship to ensure that the
industry hums along, by Prateebha Tuladhar (kp
21/03/2015)
2nd
rhino
collared at Khata corridor, by Pragati Shahi (kp
11/03/2014)
Mosquitoes
adapting
to high altitudes as climate warms, by Riwaj Rai
(rep 07/03/2015)
Govt
to
build international standard zoo in Bhaktapur, by
Riwaj Rai (rep 07/03/2015)
Four
killed
in wild elephant rampage (kp 06/03/2015)
First
wildlife
hospital to be constructed (ht 05/03/2015), Foundation
stone
laid for wildlife hospital, by Bimal Khatiwada (kp
06/03/2015)
The
vulture
song: In-situ conservation along with conservation
advocacy will help revive the vulture population,
by Anisha Pokharel (kp 03/03/2015)
Hunting
of
protected birds, animals ‘on rise’, by Shiva
Sharma (kp 26/02/2015)
‘Turn
foothills
of Dhaulagiri into wildlife corridor’, by
Ghanashyam Khadka (kp 26/02/2015)
ACAP
registers
3 new mammals, by Shiva Sharma (kp 23/02/2015)
Far
West
‘transit’ for wildlife smugglers, by Bhawani
Bhatta (kp 22/02/2014)
Illegal
trade
of pangolin grew ‘eight-fold’ (kp 22/02/2015), Pains
of
the pangolin: Government must implement programmes to
put an end to poaching, illegal trade, and habitat
destruction of the pangolin, by Suman Acharya (kp
22/02/2015)
Cabinet
okays
Suryabinayak zoo plan: The proposed zoo will be spread
over 245 hectares in Gundu, Sipadol and Katunje in
Bhaktapur (kp 15/02/2015), Central
Zoo
to be shifted to Bhaktapur, by Thomas Bogati (ht
18/02/2015)
Tuskers
destroy
houses (kp 15/02/2015)
As
numbers
rise, big cats need ‘more space’, by Pragati Shahi
(kp 12/02/2015)
Rampaging
tuskers
leave locals terrified (ht 12/02/2015)
Dhading
folks
relive nightmare as rabid hounds run amok, by
Harihar Singh Rathaur (kp 12/02/2015)
Nepal's
vulture
numbers show encouraging rise, by Riwaj Rai (rep
09/02/2015)
Nepal
welcomed
600 bird species this winter (ht 07/02/2015)
CNP
lauded
for tiger conservation effort, by Pragati Shahi
(kp 07/02/2015), CNP
recognized
as best conservation area for tigers, by Riwaj Rai
(rep 07/02/2015)
Experts
at
symposium discuss zero poaching (ht 06/02/2015)
Tiger
numbers
soar in Bardiya Park, by Kamal Panthi (kp
05/02/2015), Burning
bright:
Curbing the trade in animal parts must complement
tiger conservation efforts (kp 06/02/2015)
Victims
of
tusker attack deprived of compensation, by Parbat
Portel (kp 05/02/2015)
China
demand
for tiger parts fuelling poaching: Experts (ht
04/02/2015)
Nepal
feted
for zero poaching yrs: Wild tiger population along the
13 tiger-range countries is between 3,200 to 3,500
(kp 03/02/2015)
Anti-poaching
summit
kicks off (kp 02/02/2015)
Hunters
turn
into ‘conservationists’: Due to snowfall on foothills
of Mt Pabil and Mt Ganesh in northern Dhading, red
pandas have lately started straying intohuman
settlements (kp 02/02/2015)
‘Safer’
habitat
being built for conservation of blackbucks, by
Kamal Panthi (kp 28/01/2015)
Poaching,
illegal
trade in protected rare species up (ht 28/01/2015)
Jagdishpur
Lake
sees rise in number of water birds (kp 27/01/2015)
Bird
population
in wetlands dwindling, by KB Rana (rep 24/01/2015)
Poaching
of
rare speciesup in Annapurna area (ht 23/01/2015)
Indian
man
held with endangered tiger’s hide, bones, by
Bhawani Bhatta (kp 21/01/2015)
Leopards
kill
six blackbucks in one month, by Kamal Panthi (kp
21/01/2015)
Water
birds
under threat from habitat loss, by Bimal Khatiwada
(20/01/2015)
Endangered
hyena
found in Dang forest (ht 19/01/2015)
Health
camp
for elephants, by Bimal Khatiwada (kp 17/01/2015)
Only
tigress
in Central Zoo dies (kp 15/01/2015)
Number
of
water birds ‘declining’, by Shiva Sharma (kp
15/01/2015)
Poaching,
smuggling
of rare animals up in Bajura district of late (ht
15/01/2015)
Snow
leopard
study becoming difficult: Experts, by Ananda
Gautam (kp 14/01/2015)
Rabid
jackals
terrorise Dhading locals (kp 12/01/2015)
CNP
to
keep more elephants off chain (kp 09/01/2015), Freed
from
chains, tuskers more vulnerable in the wild, by
Ramesh Kumar Paudel (rep 12/01/2015), Drawing
for
awareness on captive elephants (kp 13/01/2015)
Fences
to
be built to prevent wild animals from entering human
settlements, by Ramesh Kumar Poudel (rep
09/01/2015)
Nepal’s
Good
Luck Cat: The discovery of the endangered Pallas Cat
in Manang has encouraged conservationists studying
Himalayan biodiversity, by Sonam Tashi Lama (nt
09/01/2015)
2
held with animal parts (kp 07/01/2015)
Forest
worker’s
demise big loss for conservation, by Bimal
Khatiwada (kp 05/01/2014)
Nepal,
India
to develop wildlife corridor (kp 04/01/2014)
Man-eating
leopard
killed, by Birendra K.C. (kp 04/01/2015)
Tusker
troubles
Thori villagers, by Shankar Acharya (kp
04/01/2015)
Know
your
rights: Those with riparian rights to river basins
must be given knowledge regarding the sanctity and
utility of their water, by SarahLevine (kp
02/01/2015)
Fewer
birds
on the wires, by Riwaj Rai (rep 26/12/2014)
Policeman
involved
in poaching of animals, by Arjun Oli (rep
26/12/2014)
Bear
attacks
‘on rise’ in Annapurna area, by Shiva Sharma (kp
25/12/2014)
Million-rupee
insurance
cover for wildlife staff on the cards, by Rajan
Pokhrel (kp 23/12/2014)
KMC
drive
to control stray dog menace, by Arjun Poudel (kp
23/12/2014)
Wild
cat
preys on six children in nine months, by Birendra
KC (kp 22/12/2014)
KMC
sells
off 161 street cattle (ht 22/12/2014)
DFO
finds
it hard to store seized wildlife parts (ht
22/12/2014)
Mystery
as
pigeons die in flocks (kp 21/12/2014)
A
stitch in time, by Prateebha Tuladhar (kp
20/12/2014)
Study
on
rare Pallas’ cat begins, by Shiva Sharma (kp
12/12/2014)
Poaching
goes
unchecked in Mahabharat region, by Barun Paneru
(rep 11/12/2014)
Raptors
‘migrate’
to avoid cold, by Shiva Sharma (kp 10/12/21014)
Forest
conservation
give rise to wildlife population, by Lawadev
Dhungana and Ananda Gautam (kp 07/12/2014)
1,000
nanny
goats sacrificed, by Pratab Bista (kp 07/12/2014)
Valley
bats
battle for survival, by Anjali Subedi (rep
05/12/2014)
Sadar
Chidiyakhana
getting a face-lift: Work to upgrade the facility in
Jawalakhel expected to be completed in two years
(ht 29/11/2014)
Rhino
collared
in critical corridor of Nepal-India border (ht
28/11/2014)
Royal
Bengal
tiger count starts in Shuklaphanta (ht
28/11/2014), Tiger
census
starts at Shuklaphanta (kp 29/11/2014)
Cameras
installed
to keep track of snow leopard (ht 28/11/2014)
Vultures
number
upin Kailali (ht 28/11/2014)
Wild
elephants,
rhinoceros terrorising locals (ht 24/11/2014)
Shuklaphanta
elephants
suffering from tuberculosis (ht 21/11/2014)
Unregistered
wildlife
trophies creating potential illegal market, by
Kamal Pariyar (rep 21/11/2014)
Tuskers,
rhinos
terrorise village (ht 20/11/2014)
Growing
tusker
attacks make Rautahat locals fretful, by Madfan
Thakur (rep 12/11/2014), Elephant
raids
add to farmer woes, by Raju Adhikari (rep
12/11/2014)
Drop
in
fish population attributed to poisoning, electrocution,
by Benup Raj Bhattarai (rep 11/11/2014)
Holy
cow:
The reason for his death was obvious; The family who
made money from selling his mother's milk had
abandoned him, by Shristi Shrestha (rep
11/11/2014)
Flooding
hits
wildlife sanctuary (ht 09/11/2014)
British
tennis
star Murray to fight against wildlife poaching in
Nepal, by Pragati Shahi (kp 07/11/2014)
Poaching
of
endangered animals on rise, by Ramesh Khatiwada
(rep 07/11/2014)
Works
under
way to revamp central zoo, by Nirmala Adhikari (kp
06/11/2014)
Catapults
come
in handy to ward off wild elephants, by Parbat
Portel (kp 04/11/2014)
Regional
zoo
plan still in limbo, by Amrita Anmol (kp
03/11/2014)
Blackbucks’
habitat
at Krishnasar threatened, by Kamal Panthi (kp
02/11/2014)
Migratory
birds
start arriving at Jagadishpur lake early this year,
by Manoj Poudel (kp 02/11/2014)
Safari
elephants
‘lack’ proper care (kp 02/11/2014)
Wild
tuskers
unleash terror in Dhangadi (ht 02/11/2014)
Forest
officials
rescue cobra, deer (kp 31/10/2014)
Six
suspects
held for involvement in wildlife crime in three days
(ht 31/10/2014)
Manang
braces
for conservation of endangered snow leopards, by
Shiva Sharma (kp 28/10/2014)
Wild
tiger
mauls man in Chitwan, by Ramesh Kumar Poudel (rep
26/10/2014)
National
bird
on verge of extinction (rep 26/10/2014), National
bird
'Danphe' on verge of extinction in Accham (nn
26/10/2014)
Human-wildlife
conflict
a threat to conservation efforts: Experts (kp
24/10/2014)
Snow
leopard
strays into Manang village, by Santosh Pokharel
(rep 18/10/2014)
Dhorpatan
Hunting
Reserve: Govt sets quota for hunting season, by
Prakash Baral (kp 15/10/2014)
Five
killed
in tiger attacks in three months, by Ramesh Kumar
Poudel (rep 13/10/2014)
Activists
protest
animal sacrifice (kp 12/10/2014), Bihar,
UP
asked to check animal flow into Bara: India’s Home
Ministry writes to state chief secretaries to bar
movement of animals throughout November, by
Chahana Sigdel (kp 13/10/2014), The
red
line: Gadhimai slaughter (rep 14/10/2014), Heart
of
stone: Laws are of little help when people do not
empathise with animals suffering (kp 15/10/2014),
India
apex
court restricts export of animals, by Chahana
Sigdel (kp 16/10/2014), Rivers
of
blood: At Gadhimai, the world’s largest sacrifice of
animals, human-animal relationships need scrutiny,
by Jagannath Adhikari (kp 16/10/2014), Indian
court
rules: check illegal animal flow into Bara, by
Chahana Sigdel (kp 18/10/2014), Action
plan
readied to manage animal sacrifice, by Chahana
Sigdel (kp 22/10/2014) [????],
Dalits
to
boycott animal carcass, by Shankar Acharya (kp
28/10/2014), India
court
on gadhimai sacrifice: ‘Act to enforce animal export
ban’, by Chahana Sigdel (kp 04/11/2014), French
actress
against sacrifice (kp 12/11/2014), Uttarakhand
bans
transport of sacrificial animals (kp 13/11/2014),
Indian
activist
calls for end to animal sacrifice (kp 14/11/2014),
Overkill
in
Gadhimai: Two divergent perspectives on the mass
sacrifice of animals at Gadhimai on 27 November,
by Lucia de Vries and Deepak Adhikari (nt 14/11/2014), In
the
name of god: The Nepali government should work with
bordering Indian states to preserve the tradition of
the Gadhimai Mela sans animal sacrifice, by Abhi
Subedi (kp 16/11/2014), Drop
expected
in sacrifices: India order of export ban, animal
quarantine at site, and public awareness new measures,
by Laxmi Sah (kp 17/11/2014), Gadhimai
fair
begins (ht 18/11/2014), Security
stepped
up as Gadhimai festival starts, by Laxmi Sah (kp
20/11/2014), Gadhimai
fair:
271 cattle seized (kp 21/11/2014), Petitions
filed
against animal sacrifice at Gadhimai (rep
21/11/2014), Temple
committee
‘encouraging cattle smuggling’ (kp 23/11/2014), SC:
Regulate
animal sacrifice (kp 25/11/2014), Sacrificial
animals
shipped in despite restrictions, by Laxmi Sah (kp
26/11/2014), Deadly
day
begins at Gadhimai today, by Chahana Sigdel (kp
28/11/2014), SSB
halt
to sacrificial animals at border ups price in Nepal,
by Madan Thakur (rep 28/11/2014), Sacrifices
despite
widespread objections, by Chahana Sigdel (kp
29/11/2014), Call
to
stop mass animal sacrifice ignored: Around 5,000
buffaloes offered to deity on Day 1, more to be
slaughtered in coming days (ht 29/11/2014), Rotting
carcasses
pose health risk (kp 30/11/2014), Animal
sacrifice
continues in Gadhimai fair amid protests (ht
30/11/2014), Sacrificial
days
poorly managed, say activists (kp 01/12/2014), Bloody
minds:
We are promoting a culture of violence by turning a
blind eye to ritual animal sacrifice, by Neeraj
Chandra Roy (rep 08/12/2014)
Rhino
census
next year (kp 12/10/2014)
Wild
beasts
kill two in Chitwan, Kavre (ht 10/10/2014)
Smugglers
‘kill’
rare animals in Dhorpatan, by Krishna Prasad
Gautam (kp 07/10/2014)
Maoist
leader
killed in elephant attack (ek 05/10/2014), Leader
killed
in tusker attack, by Laxmi Sah (kp 06/10/2014)
Snow
leopard
spotted in upper Manang village, by Prem Kumari
Ghale (kp 01/10/2014)
Disappearing
dry
trees taking toll on birds, by Ramesh Kumar Poudel
(rep 01/10/2014)
Displaced
spend
night on river bank: Villagers troubled by wild
elephants had come to the district headquarters
demanding resettlement (kp 28/09/2014)
Wild
elephants
create havoc in Kanchanpur (kp 25/09/2014)
Conservation
sector
to go hi-tech, by Pragati Shahi (kp 23/09/2014)
Monkey
menace
displaces scores in Bhojpur, by Dhruba Subedi (rep
22/09/2014)
‘Anthropogenic
pressures
pose threat to tigers’ (kp 21/09/2014)
Red
panda
on the red list: A community effort is saving the
endangered species by protecting its habitat, by
Sonam Tashi Lama (nt 19/09/2014), Once
a
poacher, he now works to save red panda, by
Benupraj Bhattarai (rep 20/09/2014), Two
held
with red panda hide (kp 22/09/2014)
Number
of
freshwater dolphins doubles in two decades: Study,
by Pragati Shahi (kp 14/09/2014)
Dwindling
food
sources hit vulture conservation efforts, by
Pradip Menyangbo (kp 12/09/2014)
Four
sentenced
for rhino poaching (kp 07/09/2014)
Jackals
injure
17 villagers (ht 07/09/2014)
Not
just
in the wild: Botanists in Ilam say orchids found
abundantly in Nepal's forests can now beautify your
home and office, too, by Benup Raj Bhattarai (rep
04/09/2014)
Regional
collaboration
to end wildlife crimes: Experts (kp 30/08/2014), SAWEAN
committed
to fighting wildlife crime (ht 30/08/2014)
Lesson
from
across the border: It's high time Nepal emulates the
Bengali model of cashing in on wild tuskers, by
Raju Adhikari (rep 28/08/2014)
Mixed
bag:
There needs to be a collaboration between national
nature conservation and law enforcement agencies as
well as with international organizations, by
Siddhartha B. Bajracharya and Maheswar Dhakal (rep
27/08/2014)
Summit
to
prepare action plan against wildlife crimes (kp
26/08/2014)
Two
new
animal species spotted in Upper Mustang, by
Nirmala Adhikari (kp 23/08/2013), Two
new
mammals spotted in Nepal: Steppe polecat and Tibetan
wolf captured on camera in Upper Mustang (ht
23/08/2014)
‘18
leopards
dead in a year’, by Shiva Sharma (kp 21/08/2014)
Call
to
improve safari elephants’ conditions (kp
14/08/2014), Treat
them
well: Elephants have been close friends to humans
since ages but we treat them like slaves, by
Anisha Pokharel (rep 14/08/2014)
Govt
to
reform wildlife farming policy (kp 10/08/2014)
21
killed
in tiger attacks in 5 years, by Bimal Khatiwada
(kp 01/08/2014)
Monkey
menace
in Arkhale and Raindi (kp 01/08/2014)
12
die
in tusker attacks in 2 yrs (kp 30/07/2014)
Elephants
destroy
houses (ht 30/07/2014)
International
Tiger
Day: Nepal on track to achieving ’22 target (ht
30/07/2014), Bardiya
has
more prey for tigers (rep 30/07/2014)
Catapult
ban
in Baghauda to save birds, wildlife, by Pawan
Yadav (kp 27/07/2014)
WWF
Radio-collars
Same Snow Leopard, by Om Astha Rai (kp 25/07/2014)
Meager
compensation
fueling human-wildlife conflict, by Ramesh Kumar
Poudel (rep 18/07/2014)
Farmer
awaits
damages for loss caused by leopard, by Shiva
Sharma (kp 14/07/2014)
Endangered
bird
rescued, by Shiva Sharma (kp 13/07/2014)
Fishing
with
electric currenton the rise in Bagmati River (ht
01/07/2014)
Wild
animals
wreak havoc in Udaypur, by Dilliram Khatiwada (kp
25/06/2014)
Two
new
bird species sighted in ACAP, by Shiva Sharma (kp
24/06/2014)
The
Himalayan
felony: Wildlife poaching flourishes under the cover
of Yarsa collection, by Bikram Giri and Jagat
Khadka (rep 23/06/2014)
Fixing
feral
dogs in Manang: The Himalayan Mutt Project, an
initiative started by a Nepali and a Singaporean, uses
a humane approach to control dog populations high in
the Himalayas, by Prateebha Tuladhar (kp
21/06/2014)
Rising
number
of stray dogs haunts public in Biratnagar, by
Abadesh Kumar Jha (kp 19/06/2014)
'Chepanggaun
can
rival Phulchowki for bird-watching': Chitwan hosts 80
percent of birds found in Nepal, by Chandni Hamal
(rep 18/06/2014)
Police
team
deployed to kill man-eating tiger (ht 12/06/2014),
Tiger
terror
stalks Arghakhanchi, by Arjun Bhusal (rep
12/06/2014)
NSU
centralleader
held forkilling deer: Remanded to 10-day custody with
five others, by Kesav Adhikary (ht 11/06/2014)
Locals
kill
leopard (ht 10/06/2014), Room
to
roam: Forest conservation around human-leopard
conflict areas is the best solution to avoid surprise
attacks on people and livestock, by Prayash Raj
Koirala (rep 11/06/2014)
Tuskers
on
ram-page in Udayapur (ht 09/06/2014), The
vicious
cycle: No let up in human-elephant conflict in Jhapa
villages, by Raju Adhikari (rep 11/06/2014)
NEA
‘negligence’
kills buffalos, by Madhav Dhungana (kp 02/06/2014)
Wildlife
movement
hampered by vehicles, by Pawan Yadav (kp
01/06/2014)
Chitwan
jumbos
move from chain to pen (kp 31/05/2014)
The
vulture
song: A toxic drug, though banned, is still killing
South Asian vultures (kp 30/05/2014)
Eagles
also
suspectible to vulture-killing drug: Study (kp
28/05/2014)
Radio
collar
tagged on snow leopard, by Ananda Gautam (kp
25/05/2014)
Rare
vulture
population up: Study (kp 20/05/2014)
Saving
the
Golden Mahseer: Conservation efforts have focussed on
charismatic species like rhinos and tigers, ignoring
our riverine ecosystems, by Arun S. Rana (kp
20/05/2014)
Leopard
shot
dead in Kapan (kp 18/05/2014), Leopard
mauls
three; shot dead (ht 18/05/21014)
325
wildlife
criminals booked in four years in Kathmandu, by
Basant Sharma (ht 17/05/2014)
Koshi
Tappu
officials to shoot down stray domestic buffaloes,
by Bhim Ghimire (kp 16/05/2014)
Far-western
region
a paradise for wildlife smugglers: Authorities caught
napping in the racket, by Barun Paneru (rep
15/05/2014)
Eye
of
the tiger: An understanding of the cultural and
religious value of tigers can help conserve the animal,
by Narayan Dhakal (kp 13/05/2014)
Wild
watch:
Appreciating the role and value of wildlife in any
ecosystem can help support conservation efforts,
by Bijaya Raj Paudyal (kp 06/05/2014)
Rhino
killed
in Chitwan sanctuary: Chitwan National Park officials
and security personnel found the rhino that was shot
dead on Saturday morning, by Dipendra Baduwal (kp
04/05/2014)
‘Govt
takes
human-animal conflict seriously’ (kp 30/04/2014)
Solar-powered
fence
to keep elephants in Chitwan, by Bimal Khatiwada
(kp 28/04/2014)
Bid
to
improve donkey conditions (kp 27/04/2014)
Conservation
in
Chitwan: Google Glass to help keep tab on rhinos,
by Pragati Shahi (kp 25/04/2014)
Census
of
rare Bengal Florican kicks off (ht 21/04/2014)
CNP
lacks
resources to treat injured wild animals, by
Chandni Hamal (rep 21/04/2014)
19
wildlife
traders held in city in one month (ht 17/04/2014)
CDO
urged
to end monkey menace, by Tika Prasad Bhatta (kp
16/04/2014)
Two
men
hurt in leopard attack, by Kamal Panthi (kp
14/04/2014)
Swamp
deer
census begins at Shuklaphanta (ht 14/04/2014), Number
of
swamp deer up (kp 23/04/2014)
Musk
deer
rescued, by Shiva Sharma (kp 13/04/2014)
Changing
weather
patterns pose formidable threat to crocodile breeding,
by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (rep 13/04/2014)
Recent
spate
of leopard deaths raises concerns, by Pragati
Shahi (kp 06/04/2014), Leopard
deaths
continue, 6 die in 2 weeks, by Santosh Pokharel
(rep 06/04/2014), Strained
spots:
Recent leopard killings are a troubling sign for
conservation efforts (kp 09/04/2014)
Vulture
breeding
cheers conservationists (kp 06/04/2014)
Endangered
dolphin
spotted, by Pragati Shahi (kp 02/04/2014)
With
demand
up in China, Nepal's red panda in peril, by Kamal
Pariyar (rep 28/03/2014)
Two
leopards
found dead in Pokhara, poisoning suspected (kp
26/03/2014), Four
wild
cats dead in as many days (ht 29/03/2014), 4
leopards found dead in Pokhara in a week, by
Santosh Pokharel (rep 29/03/2014), More
leopards
dead, poisoning suspected, by Shiva Sharma (kp
30/03/2014), Team
to
find out who poisoned leopards, by Santosh Pokhrel
(rep
Mahouts
fear
contracting tuberculosis from tuskers, by Shankar
Acharya (kp 24/03/2014)
Birds
at
Langtang National Park are anybody's guess, by
Nirajan Poudel (rep 24/03/2014)
Alpine
Gorkha
suited for musk deer: Experts, by Naragari Sapkota
(rep 23/03/2014)
Sparrows
no
longer ubiquitous (rep 22/03/2014)
Man’s
death
by tusker raises concern (kp 16/03/2014)
Monkey
business:
Monkey business: Troops of monkeys informally
translocated from Swayambhu are causing widespread
harm to farms in Okharpauwa, by Hemraj Bhattarai
(kp 16/03/2014)
Good
omen:
Diversity of wildlife in this land of rich natural
beauties is immense, so are risks against them, by
Prayas Raj Koirala (rep 11/03/2014)
Flock
of
vultures spotted in Dhading, by Sudip Kaini (kp
10/03/2014)
Tuskers
on
rampage in Kanchanpur (ht 08/03/2014)
Himalayan
heights
pose no problem for bees, by Daniel Cossins (kp
07/03/2014)
Horn
of
plenty: Rhinoceros conservation has been a success but
there is much to build on (kp 06/03/2014)
700
wildlife
criminals arrested in a year (ht 05/03/2014)
Govt
celebrates
zero rhino poaching year (kp 04/03/2014)
Owl
poaching
rampant in Nepal (ht 04/03/2014)
Celebrating
World
Wildlife Day: A commitment to work together, by
John L. Carwile (ht 03/03/2014)
Wild
elephant
electrocuted, by Bedraj Poudel (kp 02/03/2014)
Acres
of
freedom: The positive reinforcement approach to
elephant training—as being endorsed in Chitwan by
Carol Buckley of Elephant Aid International—is a step
towards building sustainable relationships between
humans and animals, by Pragati Shahi (kp
01/03/2014)
Smuggling
of
pangolin scales goes unchecked, by Chandra Karki
(kp 27/02/2014)
Maneater
leopard
kills five-year-old, by Khagendra Awasthi (kp
21/02/2014)
Wild
animals
wreak havoc in village (ht 21/02/2014)
Rise
expected
in red panda population (nn 21/02/2014)
CNP
goes
hi-tech for wildlife conservation, by Ramesh Kumar
Poudel (rep 20/02/2014)
CNP
celebrates
'Zero Poaching Year', by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (rep
18/02/2014), CNP
conservation
policy ‘effective’, by Binod Tripathi (kp
19/02/2014)
Park
elephant
dies minutes after darting, by Bimal Khatiwada (kp
16/02/2014), End
attacks
on elephants, plead conservationists, by Bimal
Khatiwada (kp 17/02/2014)
9
new animal species found inside acap in last 15 years
(kp 16/02/2014)
Pangolins
in
peril: Poaching is supported by locals as it is an
easy means of earning; we need mechanisms to make
conservation worthwhile for them, by Kumar Paudel
(rep 16/02/2014)
Vulture
population
on decline, by Kiran Man Bajracharya (rep
15/02/2014)
Rare
wild
cat found in Annapurna region (ht 13/02/2014), New
wild
cat species found in ACAP area, by Santosh
Pokharel (rep 13/02/2014)
Global
swoop
against wildlife crime: 400 held in monthlong drive,
including 16 in Nepal (ht 13/02/2014)
Animals
confined
to small enclosures as open zoo initiative lingers,
by Anjali Subedi (rep 12/02/2014)
Animals
not
on conservation priority falling prey to poachers,
by Kamal Pariyar (rep 12/02/2014)
Nepal
turning
into transit point in wildlife smuggling (nn
12/02/2014)
285
species
of flowering plants found in Nepal (nn 10/02/2014)
Special
project
to prevent human-wildlife conflict (ht 10/02/2014)
Forest
rangers
raising leopard cubs: Worry whether young ones will
ever learn to hunt (ht 08/02/2014)
Wild
elephant
attack claims one (ht 07/02/2014)
Wild
bee
population down due to wide pesticide use, by
Shiva Sharma (kp 06/02/2014)
Langtang
locals
out to save snow leopard, by Nirajan Poudel (rep
04/02/2014)
Nepal
losing
its bird populations: Experts, by Manoj Poudel (kp
02/02/2014), 11
vultures
of rare species found dead in Nawalparasi: Could have
fed on poisonous carcass (ht 02/02/2014), Poison
fishing
takes heavy toll on birds, by Sher Bahadur KC (rep
02/02/2014), Poisonous
jackal
carcass caused death of vultures, says VPN (ht
05/02/2014)
Climate
change
pushes Himalayan honey bees to higher altitudes,
by Santosh Pokharel (rep 01/02/2014)
Dharan
locals
up in arms against unruly monkeys, by Rohit Rai
(rep 30/01/2014)
Tusker
terror
forces villagers to keep vigil in frigid nights,
by Jitendra Kumar Jha (rep 29/01/2014)
Bird
population
up in Chitwan National Park (nn 28/01/2014)
Despite
shrinking
habitat, winter birds continue to grow, by Anjali
Subedi (rep 27/01/2014)
Tusker
victims
clash with police (ht 26/01/2014)
Wildlife
parts
smuggling rife in far west, by Barun Paneru and
Prem Chunara (rep 25/01/2014)
Wild
elephants
terrorise villagers (kp 23/01/2014)
Deputation
of
tuskers affects conservation, by Bedraj Poudel (kp
22/01/2014)
Wild
buffaloes
wreak havoc (ht 22/01/2014)
Tusker
terror
in Parsa (nn 21/01/2014)
Migratory
cranes
winter in Nepal now, by Anjali Subedi (rep
20/01/2014)
Endangered
antelope
numbers increase (ht 17/01/2014)
Midwinter
bird
count kicks off (kp 11/01/2014), Nationwide
water-bird
count begins today: Pollution, habitat loss means
declining numbers, by Anjali Subedi (rep
11/01/2014), Three
bird
species disappear from Chitwan, by Chandni Hamal
(rep 11/01/2014), Number
of
water birds ‘down’ in Pokhara, by Shiva Sharma (kp
15/01/2014)
Involvement
of
youth helps curb wildlife poaching, by Shiva
Sharma (kp 09/01/2014)
Tuskers
destroy
huts, crops (ht 09/01/2014)
Locals
join
hands in red pandas conservation in Rasuwa, by
Nirajan Poudel (rep 07/01/2014)
Pangolin
scales
smuggling goes ‘unchecked’, by Dipendra Shakya (kp
06/01/2014)
Madi
folks
live under constant threat of wild animals, by
Ramesh Kumar Poudel (rep 06/01/2014)
Migratory
birds
at Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve not safe (nn
06/01/2014)
4
hurt as wild elephants destroy homes, by Bedraj
Poudel (kp 05/01/2014)
New
cat
species spotted in Upper Mustang, by Shiva Sharma
(kp 03/01/2013)
Nepal
to
match tiger data with India, by Om Astha Rai (rep
03/01/2014)
Remote
village
thrives on red panda research, by Benup Bhattarai
(rep 02/01/2014)
NA
beefs
up security at CNP to check rhino poaching, by
Chadani Hamal (rep 29/12/2013)
Elephants
create
havoc in Kanchanpur district (nn 29/12/2013), Elephant
terror
in Kanchanpur (kp 30/12/2013)
Cage
worth
Rs 3.5m to raise family of red panda, by Anjali
Subedi (rep 28/12/2013)
Nepal
to
build first hospital for wild animals (News Track
India 28/12/2013)
Locals
beat
leopard to death in Ramkot (ht 27/12/2013)
"I
can't
imagine a world without birds" (rep 27/12/2013)
Species
identification
guideline in pipeline (kp 26/12/2013)
CNP
reluctant
to transfer rhinos to 'safe' Bardia National Park,
by Rameshwore Kumar Poudel (rep 26/12/2013)
Man
killed
in tusker attack (kp 23/12/2013)
Gharials
released
into rivers face survival threat, by Ramesh Kumar
Pudasaini (rep 22/12/2013)
Feathered
friends:
Although they may not realize it, migratory birds help
local farmers with pollination and insect minimization,
by Ishwor Kadel (rep 21/12/2013)
Snow
leopards’
tracking possible now, thanks to GPS, by Pragati
Shahi (kp 19/12/2013), Snow
leopard
monitored from Capital (ht 19/12/2013), Nepal
begins
monitoring God's pets, by Om Astha Rai (rep
19/12/2013), Snow
leopard
successfully collared in Kangchenjunga (ht
19/12/2013), God’s
pets, by Pragati Shahi (kp 21/12/2013), Tracing
an
elusive big cat: How Ghanjenjunga, Nepal's first radio
collared snow leopard, was caught an released in
Kanchanjunga area, by Om Astha Rai (rep
22/12/2013)
Tarai
districts
in the grip of tusker terror, by Prabhat Kumar Jha
(ht 14/12/2013), 13
houses
destroyed in yet another tusker attack in Rautahat,
by Madan Thakur (rep 14/12/2013), Tusker
destroys
30 houses, crops in Rautahat villages (ht
15/12/2013), Hooch
to
be used to trap ravaging tusker (ht 16/12/2013)
The
red
heads: The discovery of a new nest has created
excitement among vulture conservationists, by
Tsering Dolker Gurung (nt 13/12/2013)
Red
panda
habitat survey starts in Panchthar, by Giriraj
Baskota (rep 12/12/2013)
11
panda
skin smugglers arrested in six months (ht
11/12/2013)
Two
of
same family killed in wild elephant attack (nn
11/12/2013)
Kapilvastu
district
gets a ‘tiger corridor’, by Manoj Poudel (kp
09/12/2013)
Wild
elephants
destroy more houses in Rautahat, by Madan Thakur
(rep 08/12/2013)
Efforts
on
to end bird poaching (kp 05/12/2013)
Wild
cats
captured (kp 02/12/2013)
Dolphin
survey
from Dec (kp 30/11/2013)
DNA
Profiling
To Combat Tiger Poaching, by Om Astha Rai (rep
28/11/2013)
Elephant
kills
two, by Shankar Acharya (kp 28/11/2013)
Vultures
At
CNP Breeding Center Fail To Hatch Yet Again, by
Ramesh Kumar Poudel (rep 22/11/2013)
Record
Number
Of Birds Expected At Koshi Tappu, by Amar Khadka
(rep 18/11/2013)
27
rhino
poachers imprisoned, by Binod Tripathi (kp
03/11/2013)
Tusker
terror
up in Ramauli, Pratappur (ht 31/10/2013)
More
New
Bird Species Expected In Koshi Tappu This Year
(rep 26/10/2013)
The
comeback
cats: Nepal’s success with snow leopard conservation
is a case study for other countries in the region,
by Kashish Das Shrestha (nt 25/10/2013), Nepal
‘prioritised’
for global effort to save snow leopards (kp
26/10/2013)
Decline
in
migratory birds estimated at 20 pc, by Anjali
Subedi (rep 20/10/2013), Lost
in
flight: Migratory birds in Nepal (rep 24/10/2013)
Wild
tuskers
terrorize locals (rep 20/10/2013)
Locals
beat
leopard to death (ht 18/10/2013)
Wild
elephant
rampage kills one (ek 15/10/2013)
Wild
donkeys
found in upper Humla, by Keshav Lamichhane (rep
07/10/2013)
14
rhino
poachers arrested, by Dipendra Baduwal (kp
06/10/2013), 14
rhino
poachers made public (ht 08/10/2013)
Rhino-range
nations
in pact to increase animal numbers (kp 05/10/2013)
Rare
animals
found in Humla, Mustang, by Shiva Sharma (kp
04/10/2013)
The
butterfly
effect: Nepal is a treasure house for butterflies,
by Juanita Malagon (nt 04/10/2013)
Good
luck,
panda: Habitrat loss, inbreeding, and high mortality
rate are major threats to the survival of the red
panda, by Kamal Thapa (rep 01/10/2013)
Clarion
call
for conservation of snow leopard (ht 24/09/2013)
Redefining
boundaries:
Wildlife conservation, by Dipesh Joshi (rep
18/09/2013)
Snow
leopards
in Kanchenjunga area as high as 29, by Khagendra
Adhikari (rep 13/09/2013), Number
of
snow leopards on rise, say officials (kp
15/09/2013)
Vultures
at
breeding center fail to hatch eggs, by Ramesh
Kumar Paudel (rep 10/09/2013)
Tuskers
destroy
houses (ht 05/09/2013)
Rs
320,000
For One Blue Sheep: 4 firms get hunting permit for
Dhorpatan, by Dilip Poudel (rep 31/08/2013)
Animal
rights:
Mission for the meek and mute, by Nistha Rayamajhi
(rep 23/08/2013)
Minor
dies
in leopard attack in Baitadi (nn 19/08/2013), Leopard
terror
haunts Baitadi folk, by Khagendra Awasthi (kp
21/08/2013)
159
wildlife
traders arrested in 64 Nepal Police operations (ht
05/08/2013)
Two
killed
in wild elephant attack in Sarlahi (nn
04/08/2013), 2
killed in elephant attack, by Aman Koirala (kp
05/08/2013), Tusker
attack
leaves child, man dead (ht 05/08/2013)
Comrades
in
conservation: Given Nepal’s support for Chinese
interests, Beijing should reciprocate by helping Nepal
combat wildlife trafficking, by Navin Singh Khadka
(kp 02/08/2013)
Wild
animals’
attacks go unabated, by Dipendra Baduwal (kp
31/07/2013)
Record
63pc
rise in tiger population in four years, by Pragati
Shahi (kp 30/07/2013), Tiger
population
nil on organic roads in far-west (ht 30/07/2013),
Burning bright: Tiger
habitats
must be preserved to reduce risk of human contact
(kp 31/07/2013), Trans-boundary
conservation
efforts credited for success, by Pragati Shahi (kp
02/08/2013)
Villagers
hunt
down poachers to help save the tiger (ht 29/07/2013)
Rhino
attack
kills one in Chitwan (nn 21/07/2013)
Five
traders
held with rare bird (ht 14/07/2013)
Roaring
back
to life, by Pragati Shahi (kp 13/07/2013)
Solar
fence
fails to stop the jumbos, by Dipendra Baduwal (kp
05/07/2013)
Red
panda
census begins in Dhorpatan, by Prakash Baral (kp
03/07/2013)
No
fund
to treat TB-infected tuskers (ht 01/07/2013)
One
killed
in tusker attack (kp 30/06/2013)
Barely
surviving:
Karnali river and forest Corridor, by Pallavi Dhakal
(rep 24/06/2013)
Chitwan
National
Park sentences dozen people found guilty of poaching
rhinos (nn 19/06/2013)
Thirty
injured
as police, villagers clash in Jhapa, by Parbat
Portel (kp 16/06/2013), 20
hurt
as tusker victims clash with APF cops (ht
16/06/2013)
Leopard
attacks
terrify villagers, by DR Panta and Khagendra Awasthi
(kp 16/06/2013)
Wildlife
in
the city, by Kai Weise (ht 15/06/2013)
Police
seize
pangolin scales: Five arrested; Body parts were being
smuggled to China (ht 12/06/2013)
Broken
Wings:
Conserving birds, by Prayas Raj Koirala (rep
11/06/2013)
Challenges
in
keeping wildlife protection glory, by Pragati Shahi
(kp 04/06/2013), Man-beast
battle
bodes ill for conservation, by Dipendra Baduwal (kp
04/06/2013)
Endangered
vulture
population stable: Study (kp 02/06/2013)
A
jungle within a concrete forest, by Nitya Pandey
(rep 31/05/2013)
Nepal,
India
to exchange zoo animal specimens for 3 yrs, by
Pragati Shahi (kp 30/05/2013)
Bird
species
under climate change threat, study shows, by Pragati
Shahi (kp 29/05/2013)
Conservationists
call
for protection of wildlife habitats (ht 13/05/2013)
Menacing
leopard
killed in Bhaktapur (kp 12/05/2013)
Preying
on
the predator: The leopard beaten to death last month
wasn’t a casualty of human-animal conflict, it was a
casualty of our intolerance and barbaric nature, by
Priya Joshi (nt 10/05/2013)
Tiger
kills
man in Chitwan, injures another (nn 09/05/2013), Tiger
mauls
to death two Chitwan men, by Bimal Khatiwada (kp
10/05/2013)
1st
tiger
census in Banke starts, by Janak Nepal (kp
04/05/2013)
Technology
&
Tiger: DNA study of wildlife in Nepal, by Kashish
Das Shrestha (rep 03/05/2013)
Endangered
Bengal
Florican found at Koshi Tappu: Study (ht 29/04/2013)
Rare
birds’
meat ‘served in hotels’, by Shiva Sharma (kp
22/04/2013)
Number
of
swamp deer increases, by Chitranga Thapa (kp
22/04/2013)
March
for
Yarchagumba hunt begins, by Himal Joshi (kp
19/04/2013)
Locals
beat
wild cat to death in Gothatar: Activists call for proper
measures, decry brutal killings (ht 11/04/2013), Animal
on
animal: Savage glee with which a leopard was murdered
calls human ‘civilisation’ into question (kp
12/04/2013)
Two
women
injured in rhino attack (nn 08/04/2013)
Dawn
of
the wolf: DNA evidence suggests that the Himalayan wolf
is a genetically unique new species and one of the
oldest wolf lineages, by Samundra Ambuhang Subba (kp
07/04/2013)
Drive
against
stray animals on roads (kp 02/04/2013)
Concrete
buildings
pose a threat to sparrows (kp 21/03/2013)
Tiger
census
cameras stolen, by Bimal Khatiwada (kp 21/03/2013)
Tiger
found
dead in Rukum (nn 06/03/2013)
Tiger
census
starts in Chitwan (nn 28/02/2013)
Araniko
Highway
‘route for int’l wildlife smuggling’, by Ankit
Adhikari (kp 27/02/2013)
Tusker
victims
rendered homeless (ht 24/02/2013)
Number
of
blackbucks on the rise in Bardiya, by Kamal Panthi
(kp 24/02/2013)
Nepal
‘active
transit’ for wildlife trade, by Ankit Adhikari (kp
21/02/2013)
Locals
build
electric fence to keep elephants at bay, by Kamal
Panthi (kp 20/02/2013)
Tiger
kills
woman in Chitwan (nn 18/02/2013)
Wild
tuskers
run riot (ht 16/02/2013)
Three
districts
step up vigil to check wildlife smuggling (kp
13/02/2013)
Nationwide
tiger
census from Monday (kp 02/02/2013), 1st
Nepal-India
joint tiger survey, by Surendra Phuyal (kp
06/02/2013)
Red
panda
spotted for first time in Jumla (nn 02/02/2013)
Ban
blood
sports, by Pramada Shah (kp 01/02/2013)
Rabid
dogs
terrorise Kalikot villagers (nn 01/02/2013)
23
injured
during demonstrations over tusker attack: Protests held
aftertrampled womanwild elephant to death (ht
31/01/2013)
Chakkajam
against
Sunsari tusker terror (ht 22/01/2013)
Another
leopard
got rid of (kp 19/01/2013)
‘Relief’
as
maneater shot dead, by Khagendra Awasthi
(18/01/2013), Man-eating
leopard
killed (ht 18/01/2013)
Report
lauds
Nepal’s rhino conservation efforts (kp 17/01/2013)
Two
arrested
with tiger bones, hides (nn 14/01/2013)
One
killed
in tusker attack, by Bimal Khatiwada (kp 13/01/2013)
Annual
bird
count to begin today (kp 12/01/2013)
Nepali,
Indian
authorities agree on joint initiatives to protect Terai
tigers (nn 10/01/2013)
Rare
wool
worth crores seized, by Siva Prasad Upreti (ht
07/01/2013), Police
seize
1,150 kg Shahtoosh worth Rs. 3.60 b (nn 07/01/2013), Seized
chiru
wool costs US$ 40 m in global market (ht 08/01/2013)
Animal
parts
smuggling from South Asia to the north via Nepal, by
Shyam Bhatta (rep 04/01/2013)
Hunt
lingers,
but tusker Dhurbe elusive as ever, by Bimal Khatiwada
(kp 02/01/2013), Man-beast
battle
comes to a head, by Pragati Shahi (kp 05/01/2013)
Enraged
animals:
Human-animal conflict, by Ketan Jung Dulal (rep
30/12/2012)
Tiger
from
CNP mauls fisherman to death as killer 'Dhrube' continues to
dodge capture (nn 29/12/2012)
Tusker
terror
continues unabated in Rajbiraj (ht 23/12/2012), Tusker
tramples
five houses in Chitwan (nn 23/12/2012), Out
of
the blue, tusker Dhurbe runs amok again (kp
24/12/2012), Locals
demand
safety measures, by Dipendra Baduwal (kp 25/12/2012), Dhurbe
won’t
be killed: Govt (kp 29/12/2012)
Illegal
wildlife
trade a ‘concern’ (kp 18/12/2012)
Elderly
couple
killed in wild elephant attack in Chitwan (nn
16/12/2012), Elderly
couple
killed in wild elephant attack, by Binod Tripati (kp
17/12/2012), Killer
jumbo
still on the prowl, by Bimal Khatiwada (kp 19/12/2012),
Dhurbe
shot
at, he’s on the run, by Dipendra Baduwal and Bimal
Khatiwada (kp 20/12/2012)
Two
arrested
with red panda hide (ht 07/12/2012)
Rare
plant
species endangered due to lack of coordination (ht
04/12/2012)
Habitat
loss
and shortage of food pose threats to gharials (kp
03/12/2012)
Wild
tusker
tramples two women to death (nn 27/11/2012), Two
women
killed in elephant attack, by Laxmi Sah (kp 28/11/2012),
Two
more
people die as tuskers attack village nearby Bara jungle;
nationwide death toll reaches 6 (nn 30/11/2012), Two
more
die in elephant attack in Bara district: Authorities have
done little despite repeated attacks on villagers (ht
02/12/2012)
Troublesome
tusker
under CNP scanner, by Dipendra Baduwal (kp 22/11/2012)
Research
on
red panda in Khotang (ht 09/11/2012)
Concern
as
wildlife trade flourishes (kp 07/11/2012)
Simians
bully
elderly people in Devghat, by Binod Tripathi (kp
05/11/2012)
Leopard
continues
terror in Baitadi: Minor was attacked while he was playing
in his houseyard (ht 03/11/2012), Man-eater
menace:
Folk terror-stricken, by Khagendra Awasthi (kp
11/11/2012)
Tiger
preys
on elderly (ek 26/10/2012)
Wildlife
trader
caughtwith red panda hide (ht 19/10/2012)
Woman
is
14th victim of maneater leopard, by Khagendra Awasthi
(kp 18/10/2012)
Growling
at
night, mewing all day, by Samik Kharel (kp 15/10/2012)
Wildlife
poaching
goes unchecked in Jajarkot, by Harihar Singh Rathaur (kp
14/10/2012)
Poaching
of
musk deer on the rise, by Shiva Sharma (kp 13/10/2012)
Common
leopards:
Trapped, by Sharada Adhikari (ht 12/10/2012)
Birds
don’t
come easy: Proper management of wetlands is necessary to
save the birds (kp 10/1/2012)
Leopard
preys
on 8-year-old (kp 08/10/2012), Twelve
children
killed by leopards in Baitadi within a year (nn
08/10/2012)
Leopard
kills
5-year-old boy in Kavre (nn 06/10/2012)
10
more
bird species listed as ‘threatened’, by Pragati Shahi
(kp 05/10/2012)
Leopard
kills
four-year-old (ht 05/10/2012)
Elephants
a
menace in Chitwan villages, by Bimal Khatiwada (kp
04/10/2012)
Country’s
wetland
birds ‘in danger’ (kp 03/10/2012)
Rhino
poachers
get up to 10 years in jail (ht 03/10/2012)
Tiger
killed
by locals after injuring two people in Salyan (nn
30/09/2012)
4th
National
Conservation Day highlights conservation of Nepal's rhinos
(nn 23/09/2012)
Leopard
preys
on girl in Baitadi, by Khagendra Awasthi (kp 20/09/2012)
Bird
species
thriving in Ghodaghodi lake area (kp 20/09/2012)
First-ever
scientific
tiger count planned for 2013 (kp 16/09/2012)
Artificial
lakes
come to rhinos’ rescue, by Dipendra Baduwal (kp
16/09/2012)
Forest
tracks
fuelling red panda deaths, by Ananda Gautam (kp
16/09/2012)
Tigers
in
Nepal take the night shift to coexist with people (rep
08/09/2012)
Call
for
efforts to save endangered vultures (kp 02/09/2012)
Dolphins
in
Kailali under threat due to fishing in Mohana River, by
Shyam Bhatta (rep 31/08/2012), Prey
dearth,
habitat loss put Karnali river dolphins on ‘edge of
extinction’, by Pragati Shahi (kp 02/09/2012)
Deer
overpopulation
ticks disaster at Mrigasthali, by Nistha Rayamajhi (rep
31/08/2012)
Bat
hunting
on the rise in Chitwan Experts warn of ecological imbalance,
by Bimal Khatiwada (kp 26/08/2012)
Hordes
threat
for snow leopard, by Pragati Shahi (kp 19/08/2012)
What
about
them? Cruelty on animals, by Pramada Shah (rep
05/08/2012)
Tusker
kills
man in Jhapa (nn 02/08/2012), Elephant
rampage
continues
unabated,
by Parbat Postel (kp 03/08/2012)
Monkey
population
multiplying: ‘Human food changing their reproductive
behaviour’, by Rudra Pangeni (ht 01/08/2012)
Nepal
tiger
population jumps to 177 (kp 30/07/2012), Tiger
population
on the rise in Nepal (ht 30/07/2012), Tiger
trails:
Conservation efforts pay off (rep 31/07/2012), Tiger
power, by Abhi Subedi (kp 05/08/2012)
Nepal
faces
CITES sanctions over trade of endangered species (ht
29/07/2012)
Nepal
a
best performer, reports WWF (kp 24/07/2012)
Climate
change
‘takes its toll’ on snow leopards (kp 18/07/2012), Nepal
snow
leopard faces serious threat, says study (ht 18/07/2012)
Blackbucks
to
be relocated from Bardiya to Kanchanpur (rep 15/07/2012)
60
bitten
by snake in 3 weeks, 5 die, by Dil Bahadur Chhatyal and
Dinesh Gautam (rep 12/07/2012)
6
red pandas killed in 5 months, by Harihar Singh Rathor
(kp 09/07/2012)
Red
pandas
‘sighted’ in Khotang forests, by Dambar Singh Rai (kp
08/07/2012)
Trade
in
bear bile, deer musk goes unabated (ht 08/07/2012)
Experts
call
for snake conservation: The reptiles play vital role to
maintain ecological balance, by Pragati Shahi (kp
01/07/2012)
Smuggling
of
pangolin body parts unabated, by Dhruba Dangal (rep
27/06/2012)
9
rhino horn traders held in two months (ht 25/06/2012)
Drones
to
hover above jungles, click poachers (ht 21/06/2012)
New
orchid
species (kp 14/06/2012), New
orchid
species discovered (ht 15/06/2012)
Three
arrested
for killing deer in CNP, by Narayan Shartma (kp
14/06/2012)
Wild
elephant
calf ‘killed in revenge’: Villagers said to have hacked calf
in belief herds would keep off their land henceforth, by
Parbat Portel (kp 13/06/2012)
Vulture
population
stabilising: Study (ht 12/06/2012), White-backed
vultures
‘declining’ (kp 13/06/2012)
Black-bellied
Tern
now endangered species (kp 10/06/2012)
Nepal
to
give its best shot to save rhinos (kp 08/06/2012)
Leopard
In
The City (rep 25/05/2012)
The
vultures
are circling again: South Asia registers progress in saving
vultures from extinction, but more needs to be done, by
Hum Gurung (nt)
Solar-powered
fences
keep tuskers at bay, by Dipendra Baduwal (kp 16/05/2012)
First
ever
picture of Chausingha in Nepal (ht 13/05/2012)
Nepal's
conservation
success story: One-horned rhino population sees marked
increase (nn 11/05/2012), Nepal
rhino
population swells by 534, poachers cornered, says survey
(ht 12/05/2012)
Karnali
dolphins
on verge of extinction, by Pragati Shahi (kp 14/04/2012)
Central
Zoo
draws oohs and aahs, by Samik Kharel (kp 05/04/2012)
Teenager
killed
in tiger attack, three injured by leopard (nn
05/04/2012)
Rhino
found
dead, by Chandani Hamal (rep 04/04/2012), Rhino
poached
as officials bathe in glory, by Pragati Shahi and
Narayan Sharma (kp 04/04/2012)
Poisoned
plan, by Pramada Sha and Lucia de Vries (rep 03/04/2012)
Water
bird
number increasing across country: Report (kp 25/03/2012)
Poaching
in
Rara Nat’l Park: Animals are killed by home-made weapons
(ht 25/03/2012)
Wild
buffaloes’
number up: Census (ht 24/03/2012)
Roaring
again, by Pragati Shahi (kp 24/03/2012)
Urbanisation
threatens
birds, by Ramesh Prasad Bhushal (ht 21/03/2012)
On
Pharping
puppies, by Herojig (rep 17/03/2012)
Where
the
wild things are, by Ishwar Rauniyar (kp 10/03/2012)
Tree
felling
scaring birds witless, authorities remain silent (kp
04/03/2012)
Tortoise
smuggling
on the rise, by Manoj Basnet (kp 01/03/2012)
Crime
control
bureau to curb wildlife poaching (ht 22/02/2012)
Leopard
kills
girl, death toll reaches five, by Barun Paneru (rep
09/02/2012), Baitadi
village
terrorised by man-eating leopard as teenage girl becomes
latest victim (nn 09/02/2012)
Four
held
with red panda skin (ht 04/02/2012)
Wild
elephants
continue to terrorise Jhapa locals (nn 02/02/2012)
Nepal,
India
agree to join hands to fight tusker terror (ht
27/01/2012)
Found:
New
musk deer species in Mustang, by Pragati Shahi (kp
13/01/2012)
Frequent
tusker
attacks send residents for cover: Toll 10 since July;
Victims mostly elderly, by Kumar Luintel (ht 10/01/2012)
Zero-poaching
year
kicks off with low expectation, by Dipendra Baduwal (kp
08/01/2012)
Bajura
folk
in game of wildlife hunting: Punishment not a deterrent for
there’s money to be made (ht 08/01/2012)
Wild
elephants
kill 3 women in Jhapa (nn 05/01/2012)
Fewer
migratory
birds in Koshi Tappu this year: Enthusiasts blame climate
change (ht 02/01/2012)
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