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 […]

Nepal’s remarkable conservation efforts have successfully brought one-horned rhinos back from the brink of extinction, with the population now standing at approximately 752. While this achievement is worth celebrating, rhinos continue to face significant threats such as habitat loss, degradation, fragmentation, and poaching. This policy brief highlights the ongoing challenges in rhino conservation in Nepal […]

On 20 July 2024, Humla District Police arrested a man with 18 musk pods from Simikot Rural Municipality-6, Humla. In a special operation following a tip-off by the undercover informant, a special unit of district police apprehended him from his residence.  The Deputy Superintendent of Police shared that the musk pods were recovered after police […]

We are delighted to share that our director has been awarded the Nature Conservation Award 2024 by Friends of Nature for his contribution to wildlife research, species conservation and illegal wildlife trade control. Kumar Paudel’s statement is here – ‘I am immensely pleased to be one of the recipients of the Nature Conservation Award 2024 conferred […]