The recurring pain of Chure
Most of the settlements of Hetauda in Makawanpur district are facing the risk of soil erosion and landslide. Five wards of Hetauda Sub-Metropolitan City...
Bill curtails community forest users’ rights
The government has prepared a new forest bill that proposes to curtail the rights of Community Forest User Groups, although its forest strategy states...
Private forests promoting greenery in Dang
Ghorahi : Shreelochan Lamichhane of Hapur-5 is locally known to be a practitioner of private forest. He has planted saplings of different species in...
Where community forest changes fate of Majhi settlement
Betrawati : A community forest at Bidur municipality-8 in Nuwakot has proved a means of bringing positive change in the livelihood of locals. The...
Forest area expanding in Nepal on the back of community forestry
Pokhara : Although forest area is shrinking in many parts of the world due to human encroachment and natural disaster along with increasing population,...
50 percent works of Raxaul-Amlekhgunj petro pipeline complete
Hetauda : The installation of petroleum pipelines from Raxaul to Amlekhgunj has witnessed a fifty per cent progress. Works to develop an underground network...
Nearly 2,000 hectares forest encroached in Banke
Banke : Encroachment of forest under various pretexts is increasing in Banke district in recent years.
The Division Forest Office, Banke has said that the...
Finalize DRP before felling trees : Lawmakers
Kathmandu-- Lawmakers Hridayesh Tripathi has drawn the government's attention not to cut down trees before preparing the Detailed Project Report (DPR) of Nijgadh International...
Environmentalists decry Nijgadh airport project at cost of wildlife, forest
Sep 15, 2018-Amid the hue and cry over the government plan to massively chop down trees for the proposed Nijgadh International Airport, environmentalists and...
Cut down trees only after assurance of Nijgadh Airport construction: Forest Ministry
KATHMANDU: Ministry of Forests and Environment has taken stance to ensure construction of proposed Nijgadh International Airport before cutting down 2.4 trees of 7,969...
