Mount Everest, located in the Himalayan Mountain Range, is the tallest mountain in the world. It reaches an elevation of ...

In March 2021, dozens of elephants marched through the grasslands and sal (Shorea robusta) forests of Chitwan National Park, ...

Animals are also sacrificed to celebrate the birth of sons. In 2016 Nepal’s supreme court ordered a gradual phasing out of the practice of animal sacrifice that once saw as many as half a ...

KATHMANDU — The year 2024 marked two years since Nepal announced the near tripling of its wild Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) population as part of the 2010 global initiative to save the ...

For years, people across Nepal have complained of monkeys stealing food from their properties. Now, the government is holding its first-ever monkey census to understand exactly how bad the problem is.

This year, Nepal’s vice president even led the inauguration of the festival, which advocates had requested he not take part in. “Gadhimai is infamous for animal cruelty and human exploitation ...

They scoured museum archives, tested the DNA of preserved specimens and tracked down matching animals in remote areas of Nepal. A Scutiger khumbu, or Khumbu Himal lazy toad. Photo from Hofmann, Ohler, ...

president of the Animal Welfare Network of Nepal (AWNN) and executive director of the Jane Goodall Institute Nepal. "From an animal welfare point of view, we can't prioritide the disposal of dead ...