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.

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 ...

I spent a week in some of southern Nepal’s lushly forested areas, which until recently were barren ravines. Here’s how the transformation happened → In 1978, the country’s leaders adopted a radical ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Ministry of Forests and Environment and WWF Nepal have formalised a Scope of Cooperation aimed at scaling biodiversity conservation and sustainable development efforts across Nepal, with WWF Nepal ...

Radha Wagle, Nepal’s first woman Joint-Secretary and Chief at the REDD Implementation Centre under the Ministry of Forests and Environment, is working to make the forestry sector more inclusive for ...

Kathmandu, Nepal – WWF has been formally accredited as the project implementation agency of Global Environment Facility (GEF) entrusted with the design and implementation of GEF projects and funds.

Forests flourish under community control, and NASA has the satellite imagery to show it. Forests flourish under community control, and NASA has the satellite imagery to show it. is a senior science ...

KATHMANDU, November 16, 2022—The World Bank and Rural Reconstruction Nepal (RRN) signed a $4.5 million grant agreement to strengthen the capacity of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) in ...

KATHMANDU, April 9 (Reuters) - Nepal is battling its worst forest fires in years, officials said on Friday, with smoke wafting across its mountains and souring the air as it settles into the bowl that ...

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.