After degraded forests were leased out to local communities to protect and manage 40 years ago, Nepal’s community forestry program has won international praise for restoring the country’s tree cover.

Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba announced at COP26 last week that Nepal would increase forest cover to 45% of its area by 2030 when he along with the leaders of 124 countries signed the Glasgow ...

Community forestry groups in Nepal say the government is going beyond its authority to introduce new rules that would impact how they make their livelihood from forests. The groups say the proposed ...

Environmentalists have called for the separation of the environment portfolio from the Ministry of Forests and Environment, ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Forests flourish under community control, and NASA has the satellite imagery to show it. Forests flourish under ...

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Vol. 5, No. 2 (April 2018), pp. 401-439 (39 pages) We investigate the relation between economic growth, household firewood ...

This marks Nepal's first-ever payment under the Emission Reductions Payment Agreement (ERPA), a milestone in the country's efforts to curb deforestation, strengthen forest governance, and promote ...

Measurable species range shifts and changes in composition of forest vegetation in the Nepalese Himalaya have been already attributed to global climate change. This global driver of ecological change ...

Fair Trade certification is designed to help disadvantaged producers and workers in the Global South improve their livelihoods by linking their products to ethical consumers in the Global North.

There was good news out of the forests of Nepal last month. On World Tiger Day, the country announced the results of the latest national survey. Three hundred and fifty-five tigers now roam Nepal - ...

They appear tranquil soaring above Himalayan forests, but a string of cable car projects in Nepal have sparked violent protests, with locals saying environmental protection should trump tourism ...