A beach in Chitwan National Park, where local Indigenous communities have been recruited to help protect wildlife and facilitate tourism to the park. Photo: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Illegal wildlife trade is ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Residents of Mulkharka, largely from the Indigenous Tamang community, learned only in 2023 about plans for the Nagmati Dam near their settlement on ...

Amid rounds of court hearings and the decision pending on a 2024 writ petition, Indigenous Singsa-Bhote community leaders of the Lungbasamba region in northeastern Nepal have filed another writ ...

Indigenous people and rights activists continue to oppose a multi-million-dollar government plan to construct a cable car over a forested hill, which local people consider their sacred land. Activists ...

Nepal has been a signatory to the United Nations’ Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) since 1993. At present, protected areas cover 23.39 percent of the country’s total land area. In 2022, COP15 ...

Kathmandu | The people of Nepal celebrated New Year's Day on Wednesday according to the indigenous Sambat calendar, with various programmes being organised on the occasion. The Nepal Sambat, an ...

The long ordeal of the Kaxuyana, an Amazonian tribe airlifted from its land during Brazil’s military dictatorship in the 1960s, reached a happy conclusion at the COP30 summit in the city of Belém. On ...