KATHMANDU, APR 30 - Minister for Forests and Soil Conservation Mahesh Acharya has said the government is concerned over the rise in reported incidents of human-wildlife conflict and is committed to working towards mitigating them.
Addressing a meeting of the Legislature-Parliament on Tuesday, Min
KHOTANG-Nepal, May 3: Only a few years back wild animals could be sighted easily after a few minutes of walk through the community forests of Khotang district, Eastern district of Nepal. But such sights are getting rarer.
Once teeming with wild animals including the endangered ones, unchecked sm
CHITWAN-Nepal, May 3: Though Nepal celebrated 2013 and 2011 as zero poaching years, with no sign of any rhino being killed in the protected areas, 2014 does not seem to be off to such a good start. A rhino with its horn missing was found on Saturday. It had been shot dead on Friday night.
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HANGZHOU - A Siberian tiger smuggler has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for illegally purchasing an endangered species, by a court in east China. Wang, 31, a native of Jiangxi Province, was fined 50,000 yuan (8,000 U.S. dollars) by Lucheng District People's Court in Wenzhou, Zhej
I am sitting in a large meeting room at Pretoria University in South Africa at a conference to discuss the trade in rhino horn. Expecting a fierce debate pitting conservationists against hunters and traders, instead I find myself confronting my own impotence against the most horrific poaching of rh
