KATHMANDU — In October 2019, Nepal’s government introduced a new Forest Act. The law laid the basis for the establishment of the Forest Development Fund (FDF) with an extensive mandate ranging ...
Connecting 16 protected zones in southern Nepal with areas across the border in northern India created forest corridors which helped too. The growing number of tiger attacks has now tarnished that ...
Tigers are in fact "a major source of revenue": wildlife tourism and tiger safaris are a "big source of income" for communities near the national parks. An average of 3,000 people in Nepal are killed ...
To this, Chairman of Nepal Forest Products Entrepreneurs' Association, Dik Bahadur Bhujel, said the wood was left useless and crumbling because of the rules and policies full of hassles.