Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) are key to infrastructure development globally, and serve to evaluate impacts and guide approval. Importantly, the EIAs typically include mitigation measures through which projects – if allowed to advance – will reduce and mitigate the most negative social and environmental impacts. There are mounting demands to ensure EIA assessments and procedures […]

Yew trees are a slow-growing conifer under increasing threat due to habitat loss, overharvesting for traditional medicine and cancer treatment (as a source of paclitaxel), and limited natural regeneration. Nepal has three yew species (Taxus contorta, Taxus wallichiana and Taxus mairei). Unsustainable extraction for paclitaxel production is threatening wild populations, and there is also a […]

Greenhood Nepal successfully completed Nepal’s first needs assessment of enforcement officials involved in combatting illegal wildlife trade. 73 enforcement officials from those assigned at check posts along the Kathmandu-Rasuwagadhi and Kathmandu-Kodari routes, as well as representatives of key stakeholder agencies, were interviewed. We successfully gathered insights from all the major enforcement agencies including Nepal Police, […]

Greenhood Nepal is proud to announce that our founder, Kumar Paudel, has been named one of the three winners of the Future For Nature Awards 2025. Selected from a pool of over 300 international candidates, Kumar’s dedication and impact in the field of biodiversity conservation have earned him this prestigious recognition. Alongside fellow conservationists Anthony […]