Nepal has the second highest percentage of land covered by forests in South Asia. As per the Economic Survey of fiscal year ...

KATHMANDU — The Khorthali Community Forest User Group in Dolakha, central Nepal, produced 1,189 cubic meters (42,000 cubic feet) of timber in 2025 — roughly 18 standard 40-foot shipping containers in ...

The Gadimai Partnership Forest extends 4,150 hectares in Parsa district bordering a nature reserve adjacent to Chitwan National Park. Half of Gadimai Forest is made up of hardwood species like sal, ...

Kathmandu, Nepal's Ministry of Forests and Environment and World Wildlife Fund have inked an agreement to strengthen collaboration on biodiversity conservation and sustainable development across the ...

Stakeholders warn that Nepal’s first results-based carbon funding of up to $45 million from the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) may be subjected to complex bureaucratic ...

By Mongabay.com While Nepal celebrates tripling its wild tiger population, rural women in forest-edge communities face ...

Nepal’s Constitutional Court has issued a stay on the laws that require community forest user groups to pay taxes to the local, provincial and federal governments, which are seen as unfair and ...

Stepping outside in the evening is like gambling with your life,” says a local autorickshaw driver in the Khata Corridor of ...

Four people from Arghakhanchi and one from Dailekh died this week from injuries sustained while trying to put out wildfires fanned by high winds near their communities. Ten more people were injured in ...

Forests are disappearing at an alarming rate of 10 million hectares each year and about 12% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions are attributed to deforestation and forest degradation. But nature ...